Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue-Ribbon Jury...
...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...Sons James Jr. and Philip (Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets...
...Blue ribbon juries are called only in important or intricate cases or cases involving homicide, and only with the approval of the presiding judge. Blue ribbon jurors, drawn by lot from the regular jury panel, are examined in person by the Commissioner of Jurors. Qualifications: alertness, more than average intelligence, more than $250 worth of personal property. Prosecutor Dewey has had blue ribbon juries in all his major racket cases...
...stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...