Word: case
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned jury to come back here and smile at this, too." The wife of one of the jurors had followed the case as a Fall sympathizer. After the verdict she chased violently after her husband to a public park where he was being photographed. "You miserable rat!" she screamed...
...itinerary of the Michaelsonian junket. At Port au Prince, Haiti, the agent obtained affidavits from the police chief, customs officers, a night club proprietor. All easily recalled details of the memorable visit of the Congressman and his jolly party. The Department of Justice's interest in the Michaelson case seemed to centre around the black word "perjury...
With well-worn evidence Messrs. Owen Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked Judge Hitz to the jury: "You have nothing whatever to do with the sunshine of New Mexico and must decide this case on its merits, without influence of sympathy or compassion...
...current phrase for describing this state of affairs. ... I will not dwell on the pacific phraseology in which we disguise economic war, which, quite as much as armed conflicts, sheds the blood of the weak in order to increase the vital resources of the strong. The case is too plain to admit of argument...