Word: forewoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric chair to Herman Petrillo, 40, spaghetti salesman and "brains" of a murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during...
...wall before each girl's eyes is a typewritten list of clients and subjects most difficult to remember. The bulk of the 7,000 names and words for which she must watch is carried in her head. All girls watch for all clients. Twice each day a forewoman clangs a bell, summons the staff for "classwork" to a bulletin board on which are spread proofsheets of new items sent to the press by client publicity men. The forewoman pronounces carefully the names of new clients. Each new name is thus declaimed twice every day for a week. A girl...