Word: talesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's a Psychoneurosis? Later, because of the bitter feeling in Columbia, the trial had been moved to neighboring Lawrenceburg. But even in Lawrenceburg 736 talesmen had had to be questioned before twelve reasonably unprejudiced jurors could be found. During this process, Judge Ingram struck a snag. One talesman's medical certificate, which reported a psychoneurosis, set him frowning. After spelling the word out to himself, the Judge leaned forward and asked the man sympathetically: "Where does it hurt? What ails you?" One of the defense lawyers, a Negro, respectfully explained the term to the Judge...
...crucial question of whether U.S. law was ready to condone the savage, individualistic law of the frontier. The nation was beside itself with debate. New York's famed criminal lawyer James T. Brady sped to his friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book...