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...trial continued, with Mr. Sapiro hoping that the real Mr. Ford would soon mend...
...Aaron Sapiro, Jewish lawyer and organizer of farm cooperatives, is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000 because of certain articles which appeared in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). But, as the trial entered its fourth week, it seemed as if Mr. Sapiro were defending himself. For five days, he was put through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand by Senator James A. Reed, chief counsel for Mr. Ford. He was forced to admit that many of his farm organizations had failed, that he personally had received fees of $400,000, that he hoped some...
...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...
...Jury, half men, half women, seemed more attentive than the usual run of juries. They are all Michiganders, all know that Mr. Ford makes automobiles-but none of them had ever heard of Mr. Sapiro before the suit. Their religious complexion is: four Roman Catholics, two Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Congregationalist, one. German Lutheran, one Universalist, one with "leanings to Christian Science," one (Mrs. Anna Brown) not asked concerning her religion. A couple of Jews (one Orthodox, one Reformed) and a man who had once joined the Ku Klux Klan out of curiosity were ousted after the original drawings...
...Sapiro later admitted that he and all his associates had received approximately $1,000,000 in fees from 1915 to the present. Senator Reed, it is said, will receive $100,000 for his few weeks' (or months'?) defense of Mr. Ford...