Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire history...
When the trial recessed over the weekend, Judy's purse had become a symbol of the evil lurking in the kind of overzealous snooping, gossip and talebearing which seemed to be one price of national security. Presumably the noisy little defense attorney thought he was serving his client by spreading the reports on the record; his aim, apparently, was to show the jury that what she took was not of much importance. The judge had done his painful duty as he saw it. "I'm here to see that justice is done," Judge Reeves explained. "If the reading...
Hadn't Whittaker Chambers once said that his disclosure of the Communist conspiracy was like an act of war, like shooting an enemy? "You were comparing yourself to a soldier in combat?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, in a mocking tone...
...Assistant Attorney Thomas Murphy now got into the fight. He objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
...naked quality, Lord, 47-year-old veteran radio producer (Seth Parker; Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney; We, the People), combs New York City for likely-looking characters. His scouts prowl the Bowery and Broadway, hang around fight arenas and ballparks, wander Brooklyn and Harlem slums. The people they find-including rum-soaked derelicts, strapping longshoremen, street-corner evangelists, wispy old ladies-become the actors in The Black Robe (Wed. 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC-TV), highstrung Phillips Lord's first TV venture...