Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murphy was an $8,500-a-year assistant U.S. attorney, and an unknown. Throughout most of the trial his conduct had been pedestrian and plodding. Now, in his summation, he surprised everyone. He marshaled his facts impressively. He matched sarcasm with Stryker, and outdid him. When he was through, the issue was no longer Hiss's word against Chambers'; it was Hiss's word against an impressive structure of evidence...
...that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...
...late Martin T. Manton, senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, convicted in 1939-on evidence uncovered by then District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey-of accepting $186,146 in loans or bribes from litigants in his court. * Among them: permitting a defense psychiatrist to sit in court, conspicuously watching Chambers while he was on the stand; allowing Stryker to question Chambers about a suicide in his family, but barring similar testimony about Hiss's family...
...strike had begun when dockers refused to unload two ships involved in a Canadian strike. The walkout on British docks persisted and spread. Prime Minister Attlee said the London stoppage was a maneuver in Communist "wrecking tactics." Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross called it "economic and political treason." The government ordered troops to load the ships...
...momentous struggle to keep its empire intact. Only two weeks ago, it split its high-priced stock ($179), thus bringing its price down to $45 so that smaller investors could buy it, and, in effect, become Du Pont's allies. Last week, the expected assault began. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit in Chicago's Federal Court to break the $1,585,000,000 Du Pont holdings into at least four pieces. It was the biggest of the long list of antitrust suits the Government has filed against the company since 1907, when Hercules Powder...