Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, heedful of its labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers...
...talked about Poets W. H. Auden and E. E. Cummings, about modern dancing, and about vacation trips-"This time last year I was in Paris." She posed for photographers-smoothing Defense Attorney Archie Palmer's ruffled hair, adjusting the handkerchief in his suit, looking angry, looking happy, staring pensively into the distance...
...tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department, of charges that he had perjured himself when he told a grand jury that he had never given State...
...Hermann Göring, Communism by an obscure, curly-maned agitator named Georgi Dimitrov. In this instance, the Communist was the hero, accused of complicity in the setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here to be questioned by you, you scoundrel!" cried Government Witness Göring at one point...
When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...