Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Cravath quashed all such hearsay tersely. His deep voice has always overwhelmingly convinced his big businessmen clients. A statement from his great & good friend Otto Hermann Kahn who owns from 70 to 80% of the Metropolitan stock was not forthcoming. But financial security seemed to lie in the announcement that a two-year contract had been signed with National Broadcasting Co. Twenty-five operas sent over the air will bring in a revenue of $250,000. The first: Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Christmas afternoon...
...women," was the first magistrate to be ousted as a result of Samuel Seabury's investigation of Manhattan's inferior courts.* She was convicted on five counts: 1) altering the stenographic record of a case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann...
Retorted Toreador Franklin: "The idea that bullfights are cruel comes from cheap literature and hearsay...
...prosecutor he found it virtually im possible to discover or convict organizers of the drug traffic. They were too clever for his detective staff. One significant fact he learned by hearsay: the "big fellows" like the late rogue Arnold Rothstein, are rarely drug addicts. Nonetheless his men did make some important raids. No table were those last November and December in Greenwich Village, Times Square and Harlem...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...