Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York City's glib, pinchbeck little Mayor, had to appear in court last week. He was not on trial personally, just a witness. Yet he was on trial politically because the case was that of a city magistrate charged with buying his position from Tammany Hall, of which Mayor Walker is currently the chief official product. The scandal of George F. Ewald, judge of the Traffic Court, was another climax in a long series of Democratic scandals which mischance and political adversaries had been exposing all through Mayor Walker's administration. Leading...
...chairman of the Board of Standards & Appeals, William E. Walsh, was standing trial on a charge of accepting gratuities for building-permit arrangements and had been indicted for concealing these gratuities from Government income-tax collectors...
Tennessee. Democratic Senator William Emerson Brock, Chattanooga candy man, appointed to succeed the late Lawrence Davis Tyson, was nominated for the short Senate term (to 1931) over Dr. John R. Neal, Knoxville attorney in the famed Scopes ("monkey") trial at Dayton. He will oppose F. Todd Meacham, Republican senatorial nominee, in November. For the Democratic nomination for the full Senate term Congressman Cordell Hull of Carthage and Andrew L. Todd were prime candidates. Congressman Hull, 58, Spanish War Veteran, entered the House in 1907, became a potent member of its Ways & Means Committee, wrote the first income...
...ordeal, however, MacDonald stuck to the main outline of his recantation. He claimed that police Captain Charles Goff had forced his identification of Billings and Mooney in the city prison, that District Attorney Fickert had put "a whole pack of lies" into his head which he repeated to the trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...Mooney without any prompting from him. Another witness declared that he had heard MacDonald describe the bombing and the two men with the suitcase two hours after the explosion. The hearing unexpectedly broadened out when Miss Estelle Smith, onetime dental nurse, drug addict and witness against Billings at his trial, revised her testimony, charged that Prosecutor Fickert had pressed her into perjury. Incidentally she set up an alibi for Billings by declaring he was in her office, a mile from the explosion scene, just a few minutes before the bomb went off. She swore he carried a suitcase in which...