Word: sapiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Jew referred to is Aaron Sapiro, now 42, a lawyer, and the organizer of farmers' co-operative associations which market $400,000,000 worth of foodstuffs annually. No doubt, Mr. Sapiro has made a tidy profit from these ventures; no doubt, other Jews as well as farmers have shared. But Mr. Sapiro believes that Mr. Ford's magazine has slandered him and hurt his business. Hence, he filed suit in 1925 to collect $1,000,000 from Mr. Ford. Last week that suit went before the U. S. District Court in Detroit. It may last five weeks...
...lawyer yearns. The defense contends that there is no need of Mr. Ford taking the witness stand or of dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish in his motives, domineering in his tactics, and dangerous to the agricultural movement because of his attempts to control...
...will be a queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...
...Miller, 40, with his wife at his side, heard the jury's verdict without wincing, without emotion. "I am not through fighting yet," said he. He faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison plus a $10,000 fine. But his attorney, Aaron Sapiro, who is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000, immediately announced that he would carry Mr. Miller's case to a higher court. "Colonel Miller does not take the attitude of being the 'goat,'" said Mr. Sapiro. "As you know, Colonel Miller did not take the stand or call any witnesses...
...owners. This transaction was speeded up with a $441,000 bribe, of which Mr. Miller received $50,000. Mr. Daugherty, John T. King and Jesse W. Smith were supposed to have shared the remaining $391,000. Messrs. King and Smith are now dead; Mr. Daugherty is free. Notwithstanding Lawyer Sapiro, many say that Mr. Miller is the "goat...