Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatic reception room at the White House Franklin Roosevelt was last week initiated into his eleventh lodge,* the Knights of Pythias. In telescopic order he was put through the degrees of page, esquire and knight. Chief inductor was onetime Senate Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora, now a New York Supreme Court Justice. Knight Pecora's job, for which he was well equipped, was to give Page Roosevelt a sound dressing down to inculcate in him the spirit of Knightly humility...
...INQUISITOR - Hugh Walpole- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Readable but pretentious melodrama of the Furze brothers, Stephen and Michael, who struggled in the shadow of the Cathedral that Author Walpole publicized in Harmer John...
Alabama's Black. The true expertness of Senator Black's examination was shown by the way he made his witness give only such answers as Mr. Black desired. The first time Witness Hopson tried to explain one of his answers, Inquisitor Black shut him off: "Just state the facts. We don't want speeches here. . . . We don't want philosophy. . . . You suggested that the Administration be accused of lobbying on this bill...
...Senate's No. 1 inquisitor has always been smart, always worked hard at being smart, but until a few years ago was politically nobody. Born in Clay County. Ala., Hugo Black never finished secondary school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark...
...Anderson's whole career has been spent digging up scandals, until today he sees public affairs almost entirely through a haze of suspicions. He attached himself to Senator Walsh in the original Teapot Dome investigation, later scribbled two questions on a piece of paper and handed it to that inquisitor. For refusing to answer those two questions Chairman Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana was tried for contempt of the Senate, and although acquitted, lost his job with the Rockefellers (TIME, March 18, 1929). Today Correspondent Anderson and Scripps-Howard's Ruth Finney, who has all a woman...