Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admonished to draw nigh and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court." The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, convened in extraordinary session, took their places at the bench. On the right, facing the justices, sat counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, petitioners. On the left sat counsel for the Little Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before...
Recognized Rights. Five minutes after noon, Chief Justice Earl Warren's nod brought the N.A.A.C.P.'s special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, slowly to his feet; to him, more than to anyone else in the room, this session, however important, was just another battle in a long, long war. Almost serenely, Marshall reviewed the legal history of the case. The N.A.A.C.P., he said, sought only one thing: protection of the right of seven Negro children to stay on at Little Rock's Central High School. "The rights we are seeking protection for are not rights that...
...Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy) Did you know Cockeyed Dunne...
...more than 20 years, Barney Baker, 47, has palled with and worked for nearly all the U.S. hoodlums of any consequence. Among them: Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis and Trigger Mike Copola in Miami; Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas; John Vitale in St. Louis. Said Counsel Kennedy: "Everywhere you go there has been violence...
...heard law around the house since childhood, Goddard, after Oxford, once stood for Parliament as the "Purity Candidate" against a man who had been divorced. His defeat was so disastrous that he never dabbled in politics again. In 1923 he "took silk," i.e., became a King's Counsel. The next 20 years brought him a succession of judgeships, a knighthood and a lifetime peerage. In 1946 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice, the senior criminal judge of the land (salary: ?10,000, and the "perk" of receiving 4½ yds. of cloth from the City of London Corporation each...