Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the International War Crimes trial in Tokyo, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan asked onetime Imperial Adviser Marquis Koicho Kido: "Is it not a fact that from the beginning to the end of your political career, you consistently opposed any move by the Emperor to bring about law and order?" Marquis Kido nodded sublimely. "Yes," he answered through an interpreter. But his Western judges seemed to misunderstand. He explained that he had meant: "Yes, it is not a fact...
Corpus Delicti. If there had indeed been a Prosecutor to try the enormous case of this murdered woman and the 100,000 other Indians, he might have opened with a point of wide application...
...Winchell to Vishinsky: "If the people of Russia knew the facts, you might be a defendant, instead of a prosecutor." Winchell accepted a sarcastic Vishinsky "invitation" to visit Russia, provided other U.S. newsmen could go along. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to lie ... with so many rivals present...
More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
...broken the 20-year rule of Mayor Leo Patrick McLaughlin, whose bland refusal to enforce the law had made Hot Springs a sanctuary for every gambler, gangster and fast-dollar man in the country. As soon as he took office on the first of the year, the new prosecutor closed Hot Springs' gambling spots and got McLaughlin himself indicted for corruption in office. McLaughlin did not even try to run for reelection. Dopesters rated Sidney S. McMath, 35, the hottest thing in Arkansas politics, a sure bet for governor...