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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ostensibly set out to investigate a "wholesale buying" corporation called the Decimo Club, Inc., and had told his State the Decimo Club was perfectly legal after receiving from it covertly a $25,000 fee. Other queer firms that Mr. Reading kept out of the hands of the law paid him $35,000 more...
...group of bootleggers in the State of Washington had been earning some $2,000,000 a year. Federal Prohibition agents obtained their conviction on evidence gained by tapping their telephone wires. The Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and the bootleggers appealed to the Supreme Court. The only question to be decided by the Supreme Court was: Is the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution violated by using evidence obtained through wiretapping in a criminal case?*The Court answered...
...distinction can be taken between the government as prosecutor and the government as judge. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting to the disregard of its own. . . . It is a lesser evil that some criminals should escape than that the Government should play an ignoble part...
...corrupt public officer and affixed censure. Mr. Reading, guilty of at least two blatant indiscretions, speedily resigned. But the legislature sought precedent for declining the resignation and pushing the case through the Massachusetts Senate. If tried and convicted there, Mr. Reading would be ineligible for public office in his State forever more...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...