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...only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness...
...University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens pro-Trotsky Socialists who came to cheer, pro-Stalin Communists who came to boo, were both kept from the pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view...
...homestretch. Both times Lehtinen had moved over and blocked him. Chief Judge Arthur Holtz of Germany finally announced that "No. 125 [Lehtinen] did not wilfully interfere with No. 433 [Hill] . . . ," gave the race to Lehtinen. For the first time during the Games, the stadium crowd set up a mighty BOO ! Ralph Hill filed no official protest...
...Gallery?Boo! We're the voters! Repeal...
Hyde Park, in London, is the favorite spot for any man with a Grievance. Here he can talk his head off on any subject from evolution to revolution, to an audience which comes to cheer or boo him, then goes home rejoicing over the free entertainment, to think no more of it. There is no disturbance; the policemen present are never more than spectators; while the orator exhausts in empty words whatever wrath might be turned into action against society...