Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened at Psalms 33:12* raised his right hand and intoned after Chief Justice Earl Warren: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
Berman said that the lawyer must become an expert in every field that has a bearing on his case, and noted that in the McKeon case, he had to study hydrography to defend his position that panic caused the death of the six recruits rather than any sudden dropoff or deep place in the boondocks at Parris Island...
...Best Defense. In San Francisco, after heisting $180 from a store, Franklin Lindaman told arresting officers he needed the money to defend himself on a hit-and-run charge...
...insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint of $271. An innocent victim of mistaken identity, Balestrero was booked, fingerprinted, spent a night in jail, had to face suspicion and publicity, raise $5,000 bond, and defend himself as justice took its ponderous course. His wife cracked under the strain, and was placed in an institution. Even so, Balestrero was lucky. Between a mistrial and preparations for retrial, the real thief was caught, and confessed to the crime...
...nothing could better symbolize the changed world of the 85th Congress than the word, passed even as the members of the House and Senate were gathering in Washington, that President Eisenhower would seek congressional approval of a guarantee that the U.S. would defend the Middle East from Soviet incursion...