Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stenographer Henry Kannee whether they had heard correctly. Had the President really called the Justices of the Supreme Court morons? Mr. Kannee turned to his transcript and read the President's words: "Their decisions were more on legislative lines than judicial." Enlightened, the newshawks rushed off truthfully to tell the world that Franklin Roosevelt had spoken without acrimony, that in spite of the defeat of his bill he appeared well content...
...wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that Mr. Meyer had increased his bid. Now thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of losing her pride & joy, she called San Simeon again. "Well, Cissy," said Mr. Hearst, "you tell me what you want to do and I'll have my folks...
...saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose mouths are slits . . . whose eyes pop out at you like frogs', whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy." He had faced witnesses with the uneasy feeling that "one can never tell when one of those hill billies [among the spectators] will pump a six-gun at him." He had done it all absolutely without charge or fee, paying even his own expenses. "What a glorious opportunity it was for the lot to fall to a Jew to strike a blow...
Lawyer Liebowitz harvested headlines when he publicly offered to take over the convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann's case "if he will tell me the whole truth." The world held its breath while Liebowitz interviewed Hauptmann in the death house. But nothing happened...
Lawyer Liebowitz' jury miracles are for the most part based on his understanding of human reactions and on simple tricks. Witnesses who will tell the truth on big things, often lie about little ones. The police had a tight case against a holdup suspect. Although they didn't need it to convict, they introduced the man's own signed confession, secured at police headquarters. Fifteen police denied any third-degree methods. Liebowitz asked an old deputy chief inspector on the stand: "How long have you been a police officer?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever beat...