Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been demonstrated that in combat in Korea, Negro soldiers serve more effectively in integrated units." With this terse announcement by the Army, Supreme Commander General Matt Ridgway last week broke up the Army's famous all-Negro 24th Infantry Regiment. Within six months, by his order, all segregated units in the Far East Command, both combat and service, will be abolished, and their men will be moved into units side by side with white troops...
Last April a Negro juror in circuit court told the judge something new about Osborne's way with juries. She had been approached by the courthouse janitor, a Negro named Matt Jones, who asked her to cast her ballot for Al Osborne's client in a damage suit. Fixer Jones, a thin, melancholy man with the air of a church deacon, was hauled into court for contempt, acknowledged that Osborne had asked him to see if he could get any Negroes on the jury to "help out"on the case...
...Matt had "helped out" before, too, he told the court. In 1949, he and a friend got one of Osborne's clients out of a murder rap by their rehearsed testimony; neither one of them, had been anywhere near the murder. In another case, Lawyer Osborne had pushed toy automobiles around the floor of his office for two hours so that one of Matt's friends would be familiar with the details of an auto-accident case. At Osborne's urging, they signed a bogus eyewitness statement, and the lawyer rubbed it on the floor to make...
Then, suddenly, Matt stopped talking. The county prosecutor scraped together enough other evidence to get Osborne sentenced to eight months and fined $1,000 on one contempt charge, but without Matt's key testimony, he was stymied on the more serious charges. A fortnight ago, Matt changed his mind, promised to testify. To explain his previous silence, he told the court about a meeting with Osborne, a pool hall operator named James ("Pop") Balestrere, and a Negro tough named Seldom Seen. There, said Matt, Pop Balestrere advised him not to "go against" Osborne, because Balestrere "didn't like...
...Matt Ridgway saw his opening and moved decisively. Over General Nam Il's head, he sent a crisp, soldierly message...