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...midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager Meyers, it appeared, was in a temper, having been inadvertently shot by one of his own company guards...
...pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose a quick wipe. Chubby little Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr., aged 7, burst into a treble hymn, Something Got a Hold of Me, launched into a brisk sermon on "Hell, or God's Penitentiary...
...Duff, he has learned to read from the Bible, study third-grade subjects. But he still sermonizes by rote, had to be coached by Nurse Duff in his ordination sermon. Cocky, pounding fist on fist to emphasize his points, he shrilled: "I want to assure you there is a Hell, and it's a place, not just a state." When his audience oh-ed and ahed too patronizingly, Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. exclaimed: "Don't talk or laugh when I'm speaking. That annoys me, and I don't like to be annoyed when...
...appeal these cases to Hell and back!" Lawyer Liebowitz had shouted. Courthouse rumor last week was that Alabama's Governor would commute Negro Norris' sentence to life imprisonment, the other sentences would not be appealed, the Scottsboro Case would end. Yet notice of appeal had already been filed for Negro Norris and plans to free the others were hatching...
...immigrant father Isaac "Americanized'' the family name when they reached New York from Rumania in 1897. After his graduation from Cornell Law School in 1915, young Sam was advised by a successful Jewish lawyer to change his name to Lee. "I told him to go to hell." Two years of $35-a-week civil practice turned Lawyer Liebowitz to defending criminals. A debater and dramatic star at Cornell, he quickly found his genius to be mastering juries. A natural showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory...