Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after refusing a $10,000 bribe to appoint someone else, Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana appointed honest William H. Remy prosecuting attorney for Marion County. Governor McCray soon went to Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder...
...Governor Smith acted with dispatch, and ordered the inquiry himself. Last fortnight he appointed Justice Townsend Scudder of the New York Supreme Court to hear the evidence. Justice Scudder in turn chose special counsel to collect the evidence and prosecute. Justice Scudder's choice of a prosecutor was interesting because it brought into play against the Irish-American political tradition represented by President Connolly, two wholly opposite traditions personified in Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner...
Lawyer Buckner, appointed last week by Justice Scudder, was the man who investigated New York police corruption under Mayor Gaynor in 1912-13. More lately (1925-27), as U. S. Attorney, he was chief padlocker of the biggest and wettest of U. S. cities, and prosecutor in the famed Earl Carroll bath-tub case and in the alien property conspiracy case against Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas Woodnutt Miller...
Tall, deliberate, cheerful, Prosecutor Taft said: "As for our being licked, that doesn't matter. We've been licked before and can stand...
Frank Righeimer, board "prosecutor" screamed: "This is a four-flushing retreat. He is hurling defiance at the board. He is deciding for himself...