Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole thing was over before a Marxist could say monarcho-fascist-devia-tionist. One afternoon last week, U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey got to his feet in Manhattan Federal Court and announced unexpectedly: "The Government rests." It had completed the main body of its case against the eleven top U.S. Communists who are charged with conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the Government...
Long-suffering Federal Judge Harold R. Medina spoke up as soon as the prosecutor sat down: the Government had presented such a strong prima facie case that he would hear only limited argument on defense motions. He added that an hour would probably be ample. The five defense attorneys scrambled to their feet and went into an outraged act which would have done credit to a pond full of Donald Ducks. They danced, shouted and demanded a week's time to prepare briefs. One attorney made 13 separate motions. Defendant Eugene Dennis (who is acting as his own attorney...
...after an hour-during which he was once forced to leave the bench to quiet the uproar-Medina consented to listen to a motion for acquittal based on whether the Justice Holmes doctrine of "clear and present danger" applied to the case (see above). Next day Defense Attorney Abraham J. Isserman argued, in effect, that the defendants were being denied "the right to engage in political activity...
...March 8, 1949, the Young Progressives staged a demonstration in protest of the city's decision to revoke a permission for a speech by O. John Rogge, former U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, in a high-school auditorium...
...days later, C.C.N.Y. violated its own rule, perhaps unconsciously. It permitted an official of the American Youth for Democracy to give a speech. The A.Y.D., like the Communist Party, is on the Attorney-General's "subversive" list...