Word: garfinckels
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Learned counsel pleaded the defense: Charles Henry Tuttle, onetime U. S. Attorney (New York), and Joseph E. Davies, onetime Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President William Green of A. F. of L., Senator Copeland of New York and Washington, Merchant Julius Garfinckel came to praise the defendant's character. So did Edward ("Just Call Me Eddie") McCloskey, ex-prize-fighting Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out. Said Mayor McCloskey: "I didn't think the Hoover Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this...