Word: liebowitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four young Negroes ran out of the courthouse in Decatur, Ala. at last week's end and ducked into waiting automobiles. Following them came the nation's current No. 1 criminal lawyer, smiling, muscular Samuel Simon Liebowitz, 43, who four years ago promised thousands of howling, cheering Negroes in Manhattan's dark Harlem: "We'll march those Scottsboro boys up Lenox Avenue...
...appeal these cases to Hell and back!" Lawyer Liebowitz had shouted. Courthouse rumor last week was that Alabama's Governor would commute Negro Norris' sentence to life imprisonment, the other sentences would not be appealed, the Scottsboro Case would end. Yet notice of appeal had already been filed for Negro Norris and plans to free the others were hatching...
Back to New York, city of 1,765,000 Jews and 327,700 Negroes, to a delirious welcome went Lawyer Liebowitz and his four freed Negroes: Willie Roberson, 21, cured of a venereal disease since his 1931 arrest; Eugene Williams, 21, Roy Wright, 20; and semi-blind Olin Montgomery, 24. To Lawyer Liebowitz they were not only four innocent brands plucked from the burning, but four more celebrities added to the roll of 132 accused murderers and others whom Sam Liebowitz boasts of saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose...
Back to Manhattan and his 42nd-story office overlooking City Hall Park where his faithful investigator of 16 years service, John Terry (ne Capozucca) and his three lawyer-helpers toil, surrounded by framed pictures of "The Boss" and clients he has defended, came Lawyer Liebowitz. Refreshed by a night's sleep at his big new eleven-room home in Brooklyn where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest...
...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...