Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will go ahead until he and the four remaining boys are free...
...sparing of Negro Norris last week kept intact the boast of Lawyer Leibowitz that no client of his had ever been executed. Two days later in Manhattan, one Salvatore Gati, 28, was sentenced to die the week of August 15 for murdering a policeman. His lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, was en route to Europe...
Author: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League (Samuel Untermyer, president). Place: Manhattan. Medium: 175-ft. net banners to be towed behind airplanes over holiday crowds at beaches, mountain resorts. Wording: YOU PAY FOR NAZI SPIES IF YOU BUY NAZI GOODS...
...state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain's defense preparations will rock his Cabinet, might even tumble the Government from office...
Whether the Boston boos were louder than the Hollywood boos, no one could determine. But the disgruntled racing fans of New England, after finally settling down to comparative calm, saw one of the greatest races of the year. War Admiral, for whom Owner Samuel Riddle refused on offer of $250,000* last month, was made a 2-to-5 favorite (in spite of a muddy track and top weight of 130 lb.) after Seabiscuit was scratched. Leaving the post, the four-year-old Riddle colt was not in front as is his custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated...