Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Glenn of Illinois was deeply vexed that the President had not at least whispered to him his intention of appointing Illinois Congressman Thomas Sutler Williams to the Court of Claims...
...misapprehension of court procedure, her harassing interruptions and questions, so acutely demonstrate the feminine at its silliest that men in the audience writhe in remembrance, everybody laughs, high comedy is anticipated...
...sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell that damned jury to come back here and smile...
Twelve tired-eyed jurors, taut and nervous, filed solemnly into the District of Columbia Supreme Court room one morning last week after a day and a night's deliberation. A young bank teller, as foreman, cleared his throat huskily, read from a blue paper in his shaky hand: "Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court...
...friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused to submit to the court confidential documents which might or might not support this war scare.) The whole Government from President Harding down collaborated in approving the Elk Hills lease...