Word: foremans
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...editor of one journal, however, decided as a last hope to ask the foreman of the work crew how the building would look. The foreman just rugged and answered, "Damned if I now. First time I ever built a building with no plans...
...indifferent father? The doctor may have pushed his brother over a cliff, or did he strangle his mistress? Eugene, a crane operator at a construction project, thinks he stabbed his faithless wife; on the other hand, he may have dumped a load of iron beams on his foreman, whom he suspected of being her lover...
...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...
...would be equally foolish to say that the decision of the Lowell Committee was in every way a logical one. Its evaluation of the evidence of Proctor, and of the charges against Ripley, the foreman, and in several other cases show a constantly repeating pattern: an intuitive decision that the prosecution was correct and the defense in error...