Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to one public office (special rackets prosecutor for Manhattan in 1935), elected to two (district attorney of Manhattan in 1937; governor of New York in 1942, reelected in 1946). Defeated twice (for the governorship in 1938, for the presidency in 1944). In 1941 he chairmanned the U.S.O.'s $10 million fund-raising drive...
...prosecutor produced a letter, purportedly written by the bishop, in which it was stated that 1,300,000 Serbs had become innocent victims of the hammer & sickle...
...have served as state and federal prosecutor for many years. I know that conviction of the innocent is rare indeed, but it did happen here, and it hurts to know that some of my fellow Americans are feasting upon...
...drama. "Now the woman and the crumpled little corset-salesman," he choruses in the Snyder-Gray case, "their once piping-hot passion colder than a dead man's toes, begin trying to save their respective skins from the singeing at Sing Sing." "Show us how you struck," the prosecutor orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping husband. "[He] has," notes Runyon, "a sash-weight stance much like the batting form of Waner, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right...
Cautious, but determined, he returned, assembled a new board, prudently including Prosecutor Andrei Y. Vishinsky, and kept going. Last week, 22 years and more than a score of editors after Volume One, the final volume was delivered to subscribers. Russia's Bolshaya Sovietskaya Entsiklopediya was complete, and there on the title page, demoted from chief editor but still running, was the name of O. Yu. Shmidt...