Word: sapiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words, spoken in a suite at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, by an industrious Jew, Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, marked the end of the first week of a libel suit. Mr. Sapiro wants to vindicate his race and, incidentally, to obtain $1,000,000 in damages from Mr. Ford for certain articles published in the Dearborn Independent in 1924-25, which pictured a national menace in Mr. Sapiro's farm organization activities (TIME, March...
...Ford's opening reply, obviously written by his Voltaire-tongued chief counsel, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, said that Mr. Sapiro was "a grafter, faker, fraud and cheat"; that his unprofessional acts and conduct have "rendered him obnoxious to the nostrils of American farmers...
...having secured several favorable rulings from Judge Fred Raymond barring the racial issue from the suit, launched the defense with his most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This...
...Sapiro," continued Senator Reed, "wants a lot by way of 'smart' money for punitive damages. . . . I think that the evidence in this case will show you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that Henry Ford never saw those articles; that he has never read them to this blessed...
...paper has the right to print of and concerning another the truth, whatever it may be. The law puts no bridle in the mouth of the truth. And so we claim here and shall try to show you that what has been printed of Mr. Sapiro in all of its real essence was the truth. . . . It is no libel to say truthfully of a man who is a Jew that...