Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Herbert Lehman. Considerably farther removed from the New Deal than he was before he objected to the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last summer, Governor Lehman delivered a speech which, in the oratorical chorus, represented counterpoint rather than close harmony. Its strongest note: "A political party, like government itself, must be the servant of the people, not their master. It must be ... open-minded but not visionary, courageous but not impulsive, progressive but not impractical...
First defendants to file before sharp-eyed Willis Van Devanter in 28 years were a restaurant manager named Earl Frederick Palmer and his chef, Gabriel Morosi, charged with conspiracy and the passing of an altered $10.000 Treasury note which had been part of $2,000,000 stolen from United States Trust Co. of New York and Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1935-36. After tilting several times with celebrated Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz during the four days of the trial, Justice Van Devanter settled down to make his charge to the jury...
Exhibiting the $10,000 note, the Justice chuckled: "After a life of some years, I never saw one until this trial. There don't many men handle them. They're not like pennies and nickels...
Then, instead of directing the jury as is customary to deliberate simultaneously on all three counts of the indictments-pass-ing the note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J. Dowling had ever heard of such a procedure, but they made no objection. When the jurymen returned from this simplified task in the record time of an hour and a half, announcing that they had found Palmer guilty and Morosi innocent of passing the note, Justice Van Devanter proceeded...
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