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...investigation proceeded, Cohn, according to the charges, conspired with Garfield to prevent the four men from being indicted by the grand jury. Cohn got Gottesman into the act, and Gottesman, says the indictment, went to see Morton Robson, who was then chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District in New York (though he was not in charge of the United Dye case), "to effectuate the agreement." What happened after that has not been spelled out in the charges against Cohn. The fact is, that none of the four men was indicted by the 1959 grand jury...
...fireworks begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs...
Last week, guided by mysterious reasons, a long arm reached from Washington to Chicago and plucked Melekh from the bar of justice. At the direct request of Attorney General Kennedy, Chicago's Federal District Judge Edwin A. Robson dismissed the charges against Melekh on condition that he get out of the country on or before April 17. The judge said he was surprised by the request and acted on it reluctantly; he then dismissed the charges against Hirsch on the ground that Melekh's release undercut the case against his coconspirator...
...Belmont, the guild's founder, began her career on the other side of the footlights. Born Eleanor Robson, the daughter of an English stock-company actress, she followed her mother to the U.S., got a job in stock in San Francisco, soon found herself touring with Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they...
Powell did it by making some delectable deductions, said Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Morton Robson in his opening address to the jury. Among other things, said Robson, Pastor Powell wrote...