Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
...hrer Fritz Kuhn, who has been out on $5,000 bail since he was charged with stealing $14,000 from his outfit (TIME, June 5), had to go to jail in Manhattan in default of $50,000 bail. His bail was upped, an assistant district attorney explained, when Prosecutor Tom Dewey heard that Mr. Kuhn was about to skip the country...
Died. Maclay Hoyne, 66, onetime State's Attorney for Cook County, Ill., feared prosecutor of Chicago's corrupt politicians, labor leaders, policemen, arsonists, wiretappers, clairvoyant racketeers (5,000 convictions in eight years); of uremic poisoning; in Chicago...
...uncontrollable impulse" and raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted her employer's home. On his way to the campus to show police and newsmen how he had worked, he was allowed to visit a barber, get rid of his beard. Publicity-wise, cinemad Los Angeles prosecutors and police then had Killer Cook put on an act as fantastic as it was morbid. For grinding sound cameras (ostensibly at hand to record evidence) a neighborhood blonde impersonated Anya Sosoyeva. Clinton Cook stalked the willing stand-in as he had stalked the dancer, socked her with a roll of paper...
...same revamping process has been applied to district attorneys. In Manhattan, lethargic Lamar Hardy was replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...