Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known...
Practically all the outstanding members of the Law School faculty are pictured. Edward H. Warren '11, professor of Law, who, Life says, "is called 'The Bull' because he looks, walks, and bellows like one," was not snapped in the flesh, however. For Warren told the photographers that "if you bother me, I'll punch you on the nose." They took only a photograph of his portrait...
Repeal the Wagner Act? Though the A. F. of L. conspicuously omitted Secretary of Labor Perkins from the speakers' list, the delegates listened with polite hostility to Chairman J. Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board, who flatly denied that his rulings had favored C. I. O. It was, he explained, illegal for an employer to coerce employes into joining any union, and that included A. F. of L. unions. Whenever the Labor Board discovered an employer forcing his workers into an A. F. of L. union as the lesser of two evils...
Young Curley resigned under protest of certain statements made in one of his courses by Warren A. Seavey, professor of Law, which he considered derogatory to his father. His decision was not altered when Professor Seavey acepted entire responsibility for the affair...
Unable to find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren...