Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masterly handling of the prosecution of Abraham Ruef, the boodling boss of the city by the Golden Gate, after Francis J. Heney, assistant district attorney, had been shot down in court. Johnson stepped into Heney's place and, without compensation, fought the case through bitter weeks to a verdict for conviction...
...ballot are necessarily imperfect--it would not be possible to draw up a ballot representing all shades of opinion in the country--and will be construed by various factions in various ways. But on the real issue--Treaty or no Treaty--there can be no mistaking the verdict...