Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just as the Russian prosecution was winding up its case, Hermann Göring's counsel, Otto Stahmer, rose, loaded down with notes from his client. He asked that the defense be permitted to attempt proof that Germany's violation of the Versailles Treaty constituted "retaliation" against Allied treaty transgressions. Britain's Sir David Maxwell Fyfe retorted: "For the defense to say that other people did the same thing is entirely irrelevant. ... It is no answer, even if true, that someone else committed breaches...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman's book is probably the ablest apology for Russia ever written by an American. It is like a brilliant brief by a very clever lawyer who is fortified rather than handicapped by knowing that his client did commit the murder, and even where the body is buried...
While Chancellor and Cooper lolled in 70° sunshine, their great news chains were hotly & heavily invading each other's domains. Reuters had signed up its 44th U.S. client. A.P. had picked up 20 new newspapers in Turkey and was expanding in Europe and India, once Reuters' strongholds. Amid the ruins of the 19th-Century cartel that Reuters had ruled, a free-for-all was shaping up. Boyish Christopher Chancellor faced a man-sized...
...WHISTLING LEGS - Roman McDougald - Simon & Schuster ($2). The ingredients, are old, old stuff: the detective who leaves his bride on their wedding night, the client who suspects that the suicide is really murder, the wife whose hobby is love affairs, the mysterious house guest and, finally, the newly invented explosive. But it is served up with such a flourish of fresh parsley that you'd hardly recognize it as warmed-over hash...
...Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster. "Illustrates the lawyer's duty of fidelity to his client...