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Since becoming a professional, after taking up the coaching duties here, Percy has taught successfully and outpointed such ranking swordsmen as Bill Pecora, John Hurd, and Joe Levis. The latter fought for the United States in the Olympics of 1928, 1932, and 1936 and at present is listed as the top amateur of the country...
Sitting as Judicial bench for the mock trial tomorrow evening will be Ferdinand Pecora, Judge of the Supreme Court of New York; W. Calvin Chestnut, Federal District Judge for Maryland; and Scott Wilson, Circuit Judge for the First Circuit...
...news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages and an injunction. Judge Ferdinand Pecora, onetime inquisitor for the U. S. Senate, heard the case, granted an injunction prohibiting Transradio from carrying through its proposed plan of using the Buick broadcast for "tips" and getting its facts by spyglassing over the ball-park fence...
...Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings Lawyer Colombo was irritated by the fact the witness frequently testified that some Ford service men looked like Italian gangsters. "Without saying anything derogatory of the Italian race, what term would you apply to some of the men you saw around Gate No. 4 of the Ford plant...
...Geology 1 section man, has returned to Colorado for the second year to map the San Juan district and investigation geologic structures of that area. Likewise in Colorado this summer is L. L. Ray, a graduate student who is working at the Lindonmeyer site. Another graduate student, W. T. Pecora, is working in the Bearpaw Mountains of Montana...