Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco Army office. In 1922 he got a job as a state deputy corporation commissioner; it seemed that he might jog on through life as an inconspicuous public servant. But California's Governor Friend Richardson, impressed by his thoroughness, appointed him to the Superior Court bench. In twelve years as a judge his homely virtues and his obvious distress at civic corruption attracted the interest of Los Angeles reformers...
...four days in Washington's Federal Court, hammy little Attorney Archie Palmer had led his client, Judith Coplon, through her intricate story. "Judy," he concluded lugubriously, "you started with the glamour of your job and ended with the dirt and degradation of a trial." Then, turning a contemptuous look on the Government lawyers, Archie announced: "Your witness, Mr. Kelley...
Lawyer Lloyd Stryker's voice lifted in pride and reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...
...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...