Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court. The Navy got its full day in open court after one of its most noted fighting men did some quick footwork in the dark. Captain John Crommelin (who is eligible to become a rear admiral in December) had charged that the Navy was "being nibbled to death in the Pentagon" by "landlocked" strategists. His unruly blast had created only a short stir (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, more than ever determined to get a formal investigation of his charges, John Crommelin took more desperate action...
...burly mortal visited the Olympian chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court one morning last week to see his former Cabinet colleague, Tom Clark, mount the bench for the first time. Confronted by a court attache as he searched for a seat, the visitor announced himself: "I'm Secretary Johnson." "What are you secretary of?" asked the attendant, unimpressed...
Chandler. Then Hiss asked Manhattan's U.S. district court for a change of scene as well...
This week the court granted Hiss three weeks' delay, but reserved judgment on the change of scene...
Sitting in special session at Langdell Court, the Law School Forum heard Dean Erwin N. Griswold amass an extensive and detailed structure of evidence last night to prove that Harvard is superior to any other legal institution in the country. Dean Wesley A. Sturges, of Yale, will argue the other side of the case at another hearing next Wednesday evening...