Word: celler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Emanuel Celler of New York: ". . . Your anti-British mania has made you ridiculous in the eyes of intelligent people...
This last irritated Mayor Thompson. He retorted to Mr. Celler: "Permit me to suggest that you should not use the word intelligent , over your signature...
...Heard Representative Celler of New York cry that themembers of the House and Senate "drink to excess." Next day, he refused to take back his statement and re-emphasized...
...William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal...
...Upshaw will surely represent me when I am an American. If only to cast a vote against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...