Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basis of the evidence presented, the jury convicted both Sacco and Vanzetti. After their trial, however, the case became even more complicated. Walter R. Ripley, foreman of the jury, was found to have brought some cartridges of his own into the jury room and to have compared them with Vanzetti's, a violation of the rules of evidence. More seriously, Ripley allegedly told a friend before the trial that the "guineas" should be hanged whether they were guilty or not. A policeman testified that the foreman was known to be strongly prejudiced against Italians...
...evidence concerning the foreman's bias is met with a statement that his friend "must have misunderstood" his remark that the "guineas" "ought to hang anyway." The statement of the policemen to the effect that the foreman was prejudiced against Italians was ignored...
...Upheld a jury verdict awarding $625,000 damages to a man whose legs were amputated as a result of an infection traced to an insect bite. James Gallick, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crew foreman, had been bitten by a "large insect" (species unknown) while working near a pool of stagnant and putrid water on railroad property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened...
...years ago, Powers and Bradford locked horns for the first time in what was a minor but prophetic application of force. The Times had fired a printer for cussing his foreman, and an arbitration board upheld his dismissal. But the paper, working toward a new contract with the I.T.U.. and aware that the printer's dismissal was an inflammatory side issue, reinstated him anyway...
...real cute. "God, I hate that word," she says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights smooth over her alert backside. Spurred by competition, she may create the greatest whore since the fall of the Ptolomies. Mercouri and Moreau are in The Victors as well...