Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mention of Nkrumah's name brought a gasp in the sweaty courtroom. "Did you believe this?" asked the solicitor general. "Yes," said Braimah, and accused his chief of buying a Cadillac and building a fine home on the proceeds of graft...
Last week, from the doings in a Manhattan courtroom, Americans learned that the nation is nursing something far worse than the professional beggars of Europe and Asia. Millions of dollars are being siphoned away from charitable donations annually by professional promoters and racketeers. Even some of the worthiest causes pay fund-raisers up to 85% out of every donated dollar...
...History." As the arguments began, every seat (300) in the world's most important courtroom was occupied. Negro lawyers sat next to white lawyers. Negro reporters sat next to white reporters. Negro spectators sat next to white spectators. But the fact that the color line has not been erased in the U.S. was soon apparent...
...most of one night recently to "edit out the snide cracks" about Davis from a draft brief in the Briggs case, prepared by more emotional and less respectful juniors on N.A.A.C.P.'s interracial legal staff. Says Marshall sagely: "Lose your head, lose your case." But in the courtroom, Marshall is at his most moving when he is most moved...
P.W.s last summer. At this, the American remarked: "What utter nonsense! What utter garbage! How silly can you get?" And when the Reds repeated the slur, the Wall Street lawyer replied in his best courtroom style: "Your charge is untrue. I therefore treat it as a notification that you want these talks recessed indefinitely...