Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right of a congressional committee to demand that witnesses say whether they are Communists was upheld this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The decision approved the contempt convictions of Screen Writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for refusing to answer the question solely on the ground that the committee had no right...
...Assistant Attorney Thomas Murphy now got into the fight. He objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
Lawyer's Lawyer. McCloy graduated from Harvard Law in 1921 with good grades, though he missed Law Review by a shadow. Nowadays a good friend as well as former student of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, McCloy jokes over the fact that the Justice did not remember him at Harvard: "He kept all the smart boys in the front row." McCloy headed for the big law firms of Wall Street. First with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, later with Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, he and other fledgling "clerks" read and studied morning & night, drafting contracts, charters and all the other...
...Cravath's clients, Bethlehem Steel, had a stake in the Black Tom case, then being argued before the International Court at The Hague. McCloy, who on his wedding day in 1930 had sailed to take over Cravath's Paris office, went to observe the Hague proceedings and came away fascinated. He devoted the better part of his next ten years to the case, one of the most celebrated in modern international...
...America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here." A U.S. Military Government court in Frankfort this week sentenced McCarthy to eight months in prison for entering Germany illegally. McCarthy, surprised at the sentence, said he would appeal...