Word: mens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some changes in the cast of characters. Elderly (73), dignified Judge Henry Goddard, an appointee of President Harding, took the place of Judge Samuel Kaufman, an appointee of President Truman. A jury of eight women and four men took the places of the two women and ten men who, last summer, had so sensationally disagreed as to whether Hiss was guilty of perjury. At the defense table the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer, Claude B. Cross, had replaced the flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...Government promised a new witness whose words would "carry a real Sunday punch." If the charge can be proved, the vociferous, needle-nosed boss of the C.I.O. Longshoremen can be sent back to his native Australia. As in the Hiss trial, the jury is eight women and four men...
...Josephine Shaw of Cleveland. Just because she couldn't whistle, she complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...
Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous Atlantic City peace conference of 1929, Frank Costello took a leading part in calling for cartels in the 'rackets instead of armed competition-a role which gained him the title of "The Prime Minister of the Underworld...