Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bench sat Judge James Robert Martin Jr. A strapping onetime Washington & Lee football player, Judge Martin, at 37, is known all over South Carolina as a firm, fair man. He made it plain from the beginning that he would stand for no nonsense...
Little Joe. In the house things went more smoothly, largely owing to Speaker Joe Martin, who might not always know how to deal with world problems but certainly knew how to deal with his Congressmen. Day in & day out, little Joe rose at 7, worked all day on Capitol Hill, as often as not lunched on a sandwich and piece of pie in the House cloakroom, and popped back into bed at 9:30 to refresh himself for another day. Unlike Taft, he commanded an overwhelming majority. One henchman chortled: "With our majority we actually told fellows they could vote...
...Give Me the Gun." Reserving decision, Judge Martin ruled that they should be conditionally admitted into evidence. Sam Watt began to read. Willie Bishop's statement said that, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, he was in the Yellow Cab Co. office when he heard talk "about going over to Pickens . . . to get the Negro who had cut Mr. Brown." The drivers bought whiskey, drank a lot of it. Soon a caravan of cabs was on its way to Pickens...
With that, the prosecution rested its case. This week Judge Martin ruled that the statements could indeed be admitted as evidence-but only as each one applied to the man who made it. He dismissed all charges against three defendants, reduced the charges against seven others, leaving 21 on trial for murder. The defense offered no testimony. One day was set aside for arguments, one for the judge's charge to the jury. Whatever the verdict, Prosecutor Watt and Judge Martin had displayed both courage and fairness...
...Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chicago, who makes a point of double-quick refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...