Word: sabbatino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant." The jury: Gentiles 12, Jews...
...Hines your real name?" asked Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino. The defendant said...
...Well," remarked Magistrate Sabbatino, "this is one case where Jimmy Hines gets a break. Go home." Meantime, Harlem's smart gamblers had shifted from Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State...
Before Magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino in Brooklyn, N. Y., one day last week stood David Weiss, 17, U. S. Junior Communist Leaguer, charged with soliciting alms for textile strikers...
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