Word: talesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...
...defense next moved that the present indictment be quashed because of similar "systematic exclusion" of Negroes from the Morgan County venire. When jury board commissioners failed to say whether or not their jury rolls contained Negro names, Counsel Leibowitz threatened to have all 2,000 talesmen subpoenaed "if it takes till doomsday," to see what color they were...
Next day the defense won and lost a point. Judge Horton ruled that prima facie evidence had been established that the Morgan County jury roll was allwhite. Counsel Leibowitz then moved that Negro talesmen be considered for the present jury, a proposal which brought to horrified Southerners visions of carpetbagging days. The courtroom was tense when Judge Horton softly said: "Motion denied...
Jurors were then picked, sworn in. The prosecution concentrated on rural talesmen. The defense wanted young white-collar men who might have come in contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
Summoned among other talesmen for a Federal jury to try a mail fraud case in Manhattan, John Davison Rockefeller III, 24, was asked if he did not want to be excused; that it could be arranged. Said he: "I believe that any one summoned for jury duty should serve if he can." When defense attorneys asked the talesman: "Is any person connected with any of your families a member of the New York Stock Exchange?" he raised his hand and revealed what few persons know: "My grandfather is a member." Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson...