Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defense Counsel Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., black son of a black father who once bossed the Georgia G. O. P., made things no easier for his client. Loudly recalling that 3,265 Negroes had been lynched in the South since 1885, he cried: "That looks to me like an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States. Suppose this defendant is a Communist. Did you ever hear of a Communist burning anyone at the stake...
...client spoke in the interest of Rumania and of our King himself," argued counsel for the defense. "Is it not significant that after his speech he was not arrested but was invited to the Royal Palace? He there repeated to King Carol his well meant admonitions, now made the basis of a charge of lese majeste...
...must think of my client, Mr Insull, as a Greek, and judge him as a Greek...
...reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment of the Court, it was demonstrated that the bust's spectacles, mustache and derby were Removable. Attorneys for Claimant Morris saw a striking likeness between their client and the Wendel image...
...ancient Greek judges. This case is an opportunity to show the world Greek justice remains free and uninfluenced"), then flattered Greek civilization ("Here is a man who asks to be protected from American liberty under which men are murdered by machine guns in the streets"), then flattered his client ("He is a man who gave light to 43 American cities . . . and who is now accused of petty thefts...