Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
Said the court: "You can see how completely irreconcilable are the versions of the facts." As to who was telling the truth, he left that to the jury. That was, in the end, all that they had to decide...
...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...
...back he went, meticulously making the notes which were a guide to him through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
...time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put off the bill until next year...