Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in Manhattan's federal court, Harrison Williams, whom neither crash nor Depression nor SEC could down, got one of the hardest blows of his career. In a 109-page opinion which set the ghosts of the 1929 market stalking through his courtroom, Judge Edward Weinfeld found that Williams had taken for his own uses $11.4 million which actually belonged to Central States. He ordered Williams to pay it back, plus interest all the way back to 1929. Williams planned to carry his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if the verdict stands, it will cost...
...inflates all the vicious innuendo of defense counsel under the heading "Trial by Stage Whisper" [a report of the trial of Tallulah Bankhead's ex-maid, for kiting checks]. Said TIME: "The defense attorney had complained bitterly that there were 'two trials going on in this courtroom.' " Since TIME brazenly endorsed that fiction it should have added . . . that it was conducting a third trial, with me as its target...
...also give the first in a series of five talks on the problem of "Lawyers' Problems of Conscience" sponsored by the Harvard Student Bar Association. The Senator will deliver this talk, "Canons of Ethics for the Lawyer in Government and Politics" at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Langdell Hall Courtroom...
Merit & Demerit. Is the lawyer-moralist wholly right? According to Sir Walter, he is in many ways as wrong as the psychologist. At their worst, courtroom judgments are nonmoral, stressing too much the deed and too little the doer, treating the offender simply as a nuisance that must be removed. At their best, they are sub-Christian. "They witness to a moral order which commands a deep respect. But [they miss] the supreme heights of human experience . . . for [they leave] room for no gospel and no salvation...
...credibility, Medina snapped that the witness has no right to "show indignation to a United States judge." Furthermore, Medina took a dim view of Young's boast that he was often successful in taking his case to the public through full-page newspaper ads. "This is a courtroom," warned Medina, "and there will be no appealing to the public over the head of the judge . . . You are only a witness...