Word: brickmason
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...nose; his brown eyes scanned a document in the Conner case. He peered up from under bushy brows; a hush fell. The room was jammed with veniremen: Negroes as well as whites, women as well as men-a Johnson jury. Only one Negro survived defense challenges-an elderly Negro brickmason who later voted for conviction-but that might have happened in northern Maine. At one point, a defense lawyer mocked a Negro witness in the patronizing accents of Catfish Row. Objection by the prosecution. "Sustained," snapped Johnson. "Such remarks have no bearing on this case." At another point, a Government...
...September 12 Democratic primary (the only kind that counts in Georgia) is not much. Of his four rivals, one is a woman who claims, "I don't know why Georgia couldn't have a woman Governor. Europe has had its queens." Another is a Bible-quoting farmer-brickmason whose plat form is prayer, but who doesn't have one in this contest. Only Carl Sanders. 37. a good-looking state senator, seems to have a chance against Griffin. Sanders has the backing of a host of anti-Griffinites, including Georgia's key newspapers (the "Atlanta integrationist...
...active part in the Reichstag fire. The nature of such participation has not been 'shown in the proceedings before this court." On this basis Prosecutor Werner asked the Court to sentence Comrade Torgler to death. He also asked death for the fifth and last prisoner, famed Dutch Brickmason Marinus Van der Lubbe who was brought up from his cell in a stupor at every session of his trial but one. On that one day Van der Lubbe had shouted: "I have been questioned for over eight months! . . . Nothing ever happens. I don't agree to that...
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