Word: jurymen
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...Bond Street elegance and Piccadilly flair," observed that he "flew through the air with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political patronage as remuneration for any statement I ever make about this unfortunate case, and the statements I do make will be based...
...honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would no more have dreamed of sitting on a jury with the "white captains" than they would of walking up and slapping the devil in the face, escaped from the courthouse by their own devices or were eliminated by the prosecution...
...hundred-and-eighty-four canvases and pieces of sculpture were on view. In general critics from Manhattan were inclined to agree with their Chicago confreres. Jurymen Lloyd Goodrich, Waldo Peirce and Henry Varnum Poor awarded the $500 Frank G. Logan prize to pretty Doris Lee of Woodstock. N. Y. for an animated cartoon of U. S. farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables...
...Director Homer Saint Gaudens, consisted entirely of painters: Alexander Brook. John Steuart Curry and Jonas Lie of the U. S.; Colin Gill of London; Henrik Lund of Norway; and Belgium's Isadore Opsomer. Pressed for reasons for choosing the Caviedes picture out of the 364 others exhibited, most jurymen thought that its shrewd color scheme was the deciding factor...
...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...