Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee. He refused to hear Producer Dore Schary as a character witness, ruling that Lawson's character and political beliefs were not at issue. He refused to see The Jolson Story or any of the other Lawson films which the defense had stacked in cans outside the courtroom door. And he indignantly brushed aside a defense contention that he was guilty of misconduct in asking the purpose of the Thomas Committee's inquiry, which the defense contended would "bias" the jury against Lawson...
...Berlin-the "Stadtparlament" or City Assembly-convene in a third-floor room. Its straight rows of wooden benches suggest a classroom more than a parliament. But to the front, below grey curtains emblazoned with a huge emblem of the bear of Berlin, two large, raised benches rather suggest a courtroom...
...lower of these benches sit the assembly's presiding officers, behind and above them are the representatives of the four occupying powers. Perhaps the suggestion of both classroom and courtroom is apt. For here, Berlin's people are expected to learn the ways of democracy, and here the Big Four of World War II are supposed to sit in solemn judgment on their efforts. But, this week, it was difficult to tell who was judge, who the accused...
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...
...Professor Prosser some law," Poindexter had brought suit in the Cambridge (Mass.) courts for the return of the pocketed $5, plus $5 damages for mental anguish. Then he reconsidered. By mutual consent, the action was transferred to a mock court in the Harvard Law School. This week, before a courtroom of Harvardmen, District Judge Frederick A. Crafts of Waltham will hear the case of Poindexter v. Prosser. Professor Prosser has retained Professor Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard's expert on evidence, to defend him. Poindexter will have six other students and two recent Harvard Law School graduates among his battery...