Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles F. Tesreau, attorney for Doxsee, recounted the sequence of events leading to Cirrotta's death as he had learned it from the six men. He admitted that none of them could remember exact times or exactly who had done what...
Humphrey's voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...might keep Costello away." The next morning, resplendent in pearl-grey Homburg, Ryan was back at City Hall. This time he nailed to the front door of the Hall photostats of some old (and generally discredited) grand jury charges that O'Dwyer had been grossly lax as district attorney of Brooklyn. Ryan happily held every pose the photographers yelled for, withdrew the nail, and went away...
...prove to Iowa legislators that hog cholera virus might kill hogs but was harmless to human beings, the Iowa Farm Bureau's Attorney Carl ¶ Stephens downed a swig on the spot. He suffered no ill effects, but (as a possible carrier of hog cholera) was urged to stay away from hogs for at least 19 days. ¶ Shoving an 1,000-ton barge, the Federal Barge Lines' diesel towboat Harry Truman chuffed valiantly from New Orleans to St. Louis, failed by one hour and 17 minutes to match the 79-year-old record (three days...
...felt it was unfair for everyone from the members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Relief Committee to Wallace voters to be termed "un-American and subversive" by Attorney General Tom Clark...