Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindsay, confined the early sessions to the Battle of the Overpass, though Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings Lawyer Colombo was irritated by the fact the witness frequently testified that some Ford service men looked like Italian gangsters. "Without saying anything derogatory of the Italian race, what term would you apply...
...Courtroom scenes are a dramatic standby, but for bleak, malevolent drama, the screen has never achieved a better one than the trial of Robert Hale. It ends, when a string of cowardly witnesses have given their lying testimony, with Attorney Griffin's masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train...
That they did fight, Chicago remembers only too well. For eight long years Marguerite sat on one side of a courtroom flanked by various Leiter-blooded, titled British progeny, staring icily across at her brother Joseph's bald head, demanding that the Illinois courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting. Sister Nancy Campbell stood by Joseph. Perhaps he had once schemed to buy the Great Wall of China and preserve it for posterity. What if he did once order 50 dozen pairs of silk socks...
Last week the City of New York defeated a $1,000 damage suit by a similar courtroom gesture. A Mrs. Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...
Most fantastic courtroom swigger is Coca-Cola's prize defense witness, Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of Emory University's Museum. In a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled consumer who had found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs...