Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...
Said Mr. Justice Holmes: "My brother Brandeis has given this case so exhaustive an examination that I desire to add but a few words. . . . For those who agree with me, no distinction can be taken between the government as prosecutor and the government as judge. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to proceed. ... I hardly think that the United States would appear to greater advantage when paying for an odious crime against state law than when inciting...
Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama last week appointed a Captain Ira B. Thompson to be Prosecuting Attorney of Crenshaw County. Among the unfinished tasks left by his predecessor, who died, Prosecutor Ira B. Thompson found before him the indictment of himself, brought last year by a grand jury for the part he took in a series of thoroughgoing, nocturnal floggings administered to Crenshaw County citizens, both white and Negro...
When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon testified before the Senate investigating committee in regard to the bonds contributed to the Republican Party by Harry F. Sinclair, the newspapers generally gave the Secretary credit for his action, but the committee's prosecutor let Boston know that he disapproved of Mellon's action by pointing out that Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made...
...Unless Prosecutor Taft succeeds in appealing the case, Killer Remus will go scot-free to dedicate the rest of his life, he says, "to stifling the insult to our statutes known as the National Prohibition...