Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three o'clock one afternoon last week the small, highceilinged, brown-paneled U. S. District courtroom on the third floor of Chattanooga's new Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white...
...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes. But in 16 weeks they had gained a total...
...little courtroom was packed when Colonel William J. Donovan got slowly to his feet last week. Most important person present, not including the defendants and attorneys, was University of Wisconsin's illustrious Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry, his pencil out and ready to catch "Wild Bill" Donovan in action. Colonel Donovan cried: "Gentlemen, we may now see another depression, a new call for men to sit down with their President...
Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...