Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistant counsel to Clarence Darrow, he defended John Thomas Scopes in Tennessee, and he helped Samuel Leibowitz defend the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama. When "Prince" Mike Romanoff got into passport difficulties and when William Randolph Hearst had his private telegrams subpoenaed by a congressional committee, Hays came to their...
Although the Nazis would not allow him to plead because he was a Jew, Hays appeared in court and helped to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business...
Until last spring, Gen. Eisenhower was on the way to being as unsuccessful a President as was Gen. Grant. Like Gen. Grant, he was bewildered and helpless m dealing with a government that was usurping his powers. He was retreating before McCarthy. He was failing to defend the executive branch of the government and to uphold the integrity of his personnel. The tide began to turn when the Army, to be sure with his rather gingerly support, turned on McCarthy and fought back on the question of who was to run the Army. And this was followed by the President...
...from Hamburg last August to hunt sperm whales off Peru for a few months before steaming south for the rich January-May bluefin whaling in the antarctic. The factory-ship and its 15 catchers were barely through the Panama Canal when Peru menacingly announced that she was prepared to defend her "ichthyological richnesses" from the "pirate armada" with force. An Onassis lawyer hurried to Lima to "fix things up"; at the same time Onassis took out a $15 million anti-confiscation insurance policy through Lloyd's of London. A mysterious silence followed-until Onassis' Hamburg agent leaked...
...power shovel moving a specified amount of earth. A power shovel lacks drama, but there are always sidewalk superintendents around to watch. Last week 16,543 superintendents, paying $107,660, flocked into San Francisco's Cow Palace-joining millions of free lookers on TV-to watch Bobo defend his title against France's Pierre Langlois...