Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foley Square had never seen anything like it-even during the dramatic trials of Alger Hiss or the Communist Party hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland...
...expose of unjust treatment of Negro troops in courtsmartial in Korea was the subject of Thurgood Marshall's speech last night in Langdell Courtroom at the Law Forum's first spring Legal Forum. Marshall is chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will discuss "Is There Justice in the Army?" at the Law School Forum tonight at 8 p.m. in Langdell Hall courtroom...
Seated in Manhattan's federal courthouse, in the same courtroom where the eleven Communist leaders were brought to book, Defendant Sobell, 33, nervously scrubbed his fingers along his chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring...
...report, including a sketch of the bomb itself, Greenglass testified stolidly. Before the fascinated jury, he flourished a sample sketch that he had brought along with him and casually began explaining some of the inner workings of the bomb. At that, the security-minded judge hustled spectators from the courtroom. It scarcely seemed worthwhile -the horse had apparently been stolen years...