Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds which had jammed the Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...Rich Fountain." Had he ever given documents to anyone else? "Yes," said Henry Julian Wadleigh, "on some occasions I gave them to Whittaker Chambers." The courtroom murmured at this buttressing of Chambers' testimony, and Wadleigh seemed to enjoy the sound...
...conflicts between people and between ideas. The business of the law is to find a way through difficult human problems toward workable and just answers. What McCloy did from 1941 to 1945 in Washington and on half a dozen battlefields was a lawyer's job-not the courtroom lawyer, but the lawyer who keeps his client out of the courtroom...
...broke all the TV rules & regulations on this show," says Lord. "The camera doesn't shift around, it stays on people's faces. The only time it moves is to show the bag of their trousers or the length of a sleeve. The courtroom is only in there for conflict-I wanted just to look at people's faces...