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After the longest trial in Pennsylvania history (60 days of testimony), the jury last week awarded Marcus $315,100.91, double the amount of the Government losses which it found that he had proved. Unless a higher court reverses the decision, Mr. Marcus and his unenthusiastic Government will profit by $157,550.45 each...
...passed to curb Civil War profiteering. The law: any citizen who learned of fraud against the U. S. could sue to recover the losses for his Government, plus as much again for him to keep for his pains. For a long time a young Pittsburgh lawyer named Morris Leo Marcus has believed that there was life in the old statute yet. Last week his theory proved to be worth...
...Justice Department's Thurman Arnold last year were Pittsburgh's Electrical Contractors Association and twelve member firms. The charge, on which they were fined $54,000 after pleading no contest: conspiracy to defraud the Government of about $745,000 by rigging prices on PWA projects. Mr. Marcus promptly sued the contractors under...
...Marcus found his Government, which had since passed the Sherman Act and no longer needs such "informers," an unwilling partner. (If the suit succeeded, it might inspire enough 1863-model lawsuits to clutter Federal court dockets until 1963.) To get Thurman Arnold's records, Marcus threatened to subpoena everybody in the Justice Department. But once the case went to trial, his luck picked up. On the witness stand he placed Robert Carrnack, manager of the contractors' association for twelve years. Carmack, himself a defendant, amazed his fellows by waiving his right to refuse to testify. Instead, for three...
...Marcus Goodrich was famous in New York literary circles ten years ago for his golden tongue. He used to talk this book in evenings of inspired storytelling. In it he put his experience on a destroyer in the last war, heightened by his study of Melville's towering symbolism, Conrad's profuse style, and James's snakelike character analyses. While he talked his book, Goodrich earned his living from advertising and the movies. Now that he has got it on paper, he is a full-fledged, first-rate novelist...