Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to investigate not only him but also the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for "gross abuse" of its authority in "a shameless political conspiracy engineered by the Republican leadership ... a barrage of poison...
...Carl B. Shelley to start a Grand Jury investigation of the Earle regime. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 6-to-1 Republican, refused to halt this move. Governor Earle then turned to the General Assembly, Democratic by 150-to-53 in the House, 34-to-16 in the Senate. A special session would cost Pennsylvania's taxpayers anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 but Governor Earle called one, giving 23 reasons besides the chief one, which he said was: "To repel an unprecedented judicial invasion of the executive and legislative branches of our Government...
...Pecora investigation of Wall Street in 1933, upon the House of Morgan's "preferred list" of friends for special treatment in the issuance of securities, appeared the names of Pennsylvania's Chief Justice John W. Kephart and Justice William I. Schaffer...
Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved...
...Leslie Hore-Belisha made a heavy dent in the money barrier which for generations has kept sons of Britain's lower orders from becoming brigadiers. His Majesty's Government announced that Sandhurst and Woolwich scholarships would be available to every candidate able to pass the tests; furthermore, special grants of ?20 a year would be made to impoverished subalterns. This was capped with a new system of speeding the promotions of young officers, speeding the retirement of elderly officers. Mr. Hore-Belisha crowed: "These new measures insure that an army career throughout its various stages will...