Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court recessed for Labor Day week end. Prosecutor Dewey announced that "the people's case is rapidly drawing to a conclusion...
...classic criminal trial in the U. S. is one like that of the late Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a bitter battle of wits in which a prosecutor, inch by inch, weaves a damning web of evidence around a stubborn, close-mouthed defendant. Another kind of criminal trial, hitherto associated with Moscow, was last week proceeding in Manhattan. In it members of a conspiracy stumbled over themselves in their eagerness to confess dastardly deeds, while the only alleged conspirator who did not admit guilt looked as though he could hardly believe his ears...
...week bluff, hearty old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines. on trial as political fixer for New York City's numbers racket (TIME. Sept. 5), had heard a long string of criminals readily admitting bribery, thuggery and perjury in building their $20,000,000-a-year gambling racket. Last week Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey called two more witnesses embarrassing to the defense...
John F. Curry, 64, was big boss of Tammany Hall from 1929 to 1934. White haired and benign, the old Tammanyite walked to the stand without a glance at powerful old Tammanyite Hines. who helped to make him boss and later led the movement to oust him. Prosecutor Dewey had been trying to show that one of Hines's great services to the numbers racketeers was his ability to get troublesome detectives transferred to other duties. He asked Mr. Curry...
...Columbia). Part of the campaign now being conducted by Hollywood studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave...