Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican Congressman Walter Brehm, respected dentist from Logan, Ohio and a member of Congress for eight years, last week walked out of a Washington, D.C. courtroom in disgrace. A jury had just convicted him of extracting campaign fund kickbacks from an office clerk's salary. He was found guilty of getting $1,000 from Clerk Emma Craven, but not guilty of taking money from another clerk in his Washington office, tiny, 74-year-old Clara Soliday...
...teach, do research work, attend forums and legal clinics. Like their London colleagues, they will live with the? students (the center has rooms for 75 students, special suites for the visiting lawyers), talk over the problems of legal practice in & out of class. One S.M.U. building contains a model courtroom and a replica of an up-to-date lawyer's office, where students will give free advice to needy citizens. The center boasts three libraries, one for general law, one for international law, and one for oil and gas law, a Texas specialty that might startle many a Lincoln...
...Sacramento courtroom last week, the two-year battle of the University of California loyalty oath came to its first legal decision. By unanimous vote, the three-man district court of appeals 1) declared the oath unconstitutional and 2) ordered the reinstatement of 26 professors who had been fired for not signing...
...federal courtroom in Manhattan last week, three Americans-two men and a woman-were found guilty of transmitting their country's most precious wartime secrets, including the key to the Abomb, to Soviet Russia...
...shabby courtroom* in the little town of Chieti last week, Laura Diaz, a young (30), comely Communist, stood charged with the crime of having publicly insulted the Pope. Under the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Vatican and the Italian government, ratified in the republican constitution, insults to the reigning Pontiff are punishable by imprisonment or fine. The prosecution charged that at a 1948 electoral meeting in Ortona, Laura Diaz had said that the Pope's "hands dripped with the blood of the children of Greece and Palestine" because the Pope had not prevented wars in those countries and that...