Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last February the Howell committee, still Republican, went to New Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee...
...from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained or a penny lost." His client, Isidor Kresel. a lawyer who was also a past master of trial technique, smiled...
This was more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries...
...Isidor Kresel there was a more important question involved. Once during the trial when the prosecutor fired questions so fast that he had no time to amplify his answers, Kresel had started from the witness chair with tears in his eyes. "Give me a chance. I'm fighting for my life,'' he almost sobbed...
Austrian Jew, Lawyer Kresel had been an assistant to Crusader William Travers Jerome, a special Federal Attorney in the post-War "Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank...