Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...district attorney, a tall, grim-faced man, spoke for 60 minutes. He promised to prove that in 1945 the eleven Reds had laid their plans for violence. They had started classes in revolutionary technique, and the classes were still being run. Charged McGohey: "The Russian Revolution is studied in detail as a blueprint," and according to that blueprint it took only 50,000 trained revolutionaries to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia. "At the proper time," he said, the U.S. students of revolt are taught that "the party will lead the proletariat in revolution...
Scientific Socialism. At the defense table sat hulking, curly-haired Eugene Dennis, one of the eleven defendants. He had dismissed his lawyer, announcing he would plead his own case. His purpose was obvious; as his own attorney he could make speeches in court and get in a form of testimony without being under oath. Dennis made his side's first address...
Schroeter noted that H442 could harm whole universities and their students for the political opinion of one person on the faculty. He pointed out that the Attorney-General has not had to prosecute a single person under loyalty laws currently extant...
Manhattan's ritzy Ritz Tower Hotel went to court to persuade Actress Ruth Chatterton, 55, to stop cooking in her three-room suite. The neighbors were complaining of "powerful odors," and the management had tried without success to deodorize the halls. An attorney for the stage & screen actress who once starred in Broadway's Come Out of the Kitchen (1916), said that she was "very much annoyed" and would move...