Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
Nobody doubted that No. 2 man, Sam Houston Jones, 42, log-cabin-born lawyer from growing Lake Charles (pop. 15,791) in West Louisiana, had a good chance in the run-off next month. A medium-sized, moderately colorless, moderately prosperous small-town ex-assistant prosecutor of unquestioned honesty, Sam Jones's greatest appeal lay in his name. Driving through the Louisiana countryside, motorists reported a warm grass-roots emotion at seeing signs that asserted with quiet dignity: This Is a Sam Jones Town. They felt that a politician named Sam Jones might travel...
...veteran of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Roberts first attracted national notice as Government Prosecutor in the Teapot Dome cases, and was raised to the Court shortly after the conclusion of that litigation. He has written the Court's opinion in many controversial cases...
...scholar, a prosecutor, sent Gangster "Legs" Diamond to jail...