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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Honest Feit | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

Congressman Celler read George Washington's beer recipe into the Record and said he was going to send it to his constituents. Congressman Somers of New York proposed to have ballots for and against light wines and beers printed and furnished with franked envelopes for every Congressman to send to his constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Fireworks | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic decided it would investigate the effects of prohibition, but the wets laughed in derision. Representative Celler, a New York wet, exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Toil and Trouble | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...parents are up all night worrying about his night life." Of whom did Congressman Celler talk? 18) Chief Justice Taft attended the funeral of a Negro. What Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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