Word: curtins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD 1936 YALE 1936 Murphy, l.c. r.e., Herold Burton, l.t. r.t., Goodall Prout, l.g. r.g., Davis Letarte, c. c., Barr Blatchford, r.g. l.g., Train Cahners, r.t. l.t., Stein Kelly, r.e. l.e., Wilson Prouty, q.b. q.b., Roscoe Lane, l.h.b. r.h.b., Curtin Adzigian, r.h.b. l.h.b., Whitehead Jackson, f.b. f.b., Mack...
After Mayor Walker quit the stand, it took John J. Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...
When Counsel Curtin moved to adjourn, the stenographer taking his speech down phonetically recorded it "adjoin...
Unable to satisfy Governor Roosevelt without corroborative testimony, Mayor Walker had 22 witnesses subpoenaed for his defense. Of these eight were important New York State Republicans. Counsel Curtin was going to try to prove by them that the Tammany investigation was a G. O. P. plot inspired from Washington to abort the Roosevelt and Smith presidential candidacies. How such a plot, even if proved, would clear Mayor Walker of the charges and evidence against him Mr. Curtin did not attempt to explain. The inference was that if Governor Roosevelt removed the Mayor he would somehow be in political cahoots with...
...illustration we need go no further." Governor Roosevelt: It is a very apt case. You are in the position of the Prophet Daniel. I will not say Mayor Walker is in the position of Susanna. Mayor Walker: I certainly feel like it. Observers at the hearing suspected that Counsel Curtin was building up a case, in the event of the Mayor's removal, with which to go into the Federal courts under the "due process of law" clause of the Constitution. This suspicion was heightened when Mayor Walker spoke of a "vested interest" (salary) in his job which...