Word: courts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to keep him out of the Mayor's office. In his political laboratory, Mr. Shook got to work. He uncovered one Maxwell Burkett, San Antonio lawyer who had been an attorney for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Mr. Burkett, it was alleged in court later, had been prevented, as part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook having shaken up some other interesting combinations, emerged from his laboratory with several indictments, on charges of paying and conspiring to pay the poll taxes of others (a prison offense...
Enlarged, enriched by this experience, she and her butler husband became angels, contributed all their savings to the Divine treasury, said she. Later, 54-year-old Mrs. Brown began to feel different again. Into court last week she marched to confront an inscrutable little Father Divine. He might be God to thousands of Negroes and white people, but he was God no longer to disgruntled Mrs. Brown. She wanted her money back. So did some others she represented. Mrs. Brown began to testify. At that moment the Black Eagle swooped from Harlem...
Dressed in a faultless blue suit with a white carnation in his buttonhole, pearl spats and ascot tie, he strode into court, announced thai! he had come to settle the whole affair by paying out of his own pocket Mrs. Brown's $6,500 claim, her $6,000 lawyer's fee. A gratifying uproar filled the court...
Between conference chamber and court room the colonel bustled, snapping his fingers in summons, beckoning, bowing, whispering, glaring through his monocle. Once he emerged from conference with the air of a man whose adventurous patience is exhausted. Ostentatiously he tore up a typewritten sheet, announced for all to hear: "I'm all washed up." Back he went, however, to the conference room, like the leader of a forlorn hope. At last, after two days, peace seemed to be assured. Justice Dineen adjourned court and his decision until next...
...Then," said the General, "I shall commit hara-kiri in your front court...