Word: lebeau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liebowitz would have been Sam Lebeau had not his immigrant father Isaac "Americanized'' the family name when they reached New York from Rumania in 1897. After his graduation from Cornell Law School in 1915, young Sam was advised by a successful Jewish lawyer to change his name to Lee. "I told him to go to hell." Two years of $35-a-week civil practice turned Lawyer Liebowitz to defending criminals. A debater and dramatic star at Cornell, he quickly found his genius to be mastering juries. A natural showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face...