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...courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries of "frame-up" from labor, and followed by an admission that one juror had lent $24,000 to a deputy district attorney...
Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...
...Thomas Masaryk's birth occurred. At his grave in Lany, Gottwald & Co. assembled for a propaganda field day. They said: "If Thomas Masaryk were alive he would approve us." Jan Masaryk was not among them at the grave, but the fact that he was in the Communist Cabinet lent validity to the Communist use of his father's name...
...Barnsdall Jr., a lawyer of Buffalo, lent a policeman a pencil to write, out a parking ticket, later got off on the ground that the ticket was not written in ink or indelible pencil...
...Lent. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. "Look," said the little girl. "Mustn't point," said the woman. "But mother," asked the little girl, "why has he got that black mark on his forehead?" "Hush," said her mother. "It's something they do in church, I think...