Word: defender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never Learn. The life of a lawyer is hard, particularly when he commits murder and is called upon to defend the victim inaccurately accused of the same homicide. This lawyer had murdered a lover of his own mistress. The whole matter was naturally distressing to his wife and little ones at home. Likewise to the audience, which was not amused...
...when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate the Constitution otherwise, it is time to lay aside courtesy, and instead of having troops in Nicaragua, where we have no business to defend money interests, we should bring them here and put them on the streets of the District of Columbia to protect the lives and the property and the virtue of the women of our country and the lives of our little boys and girls...
...Honest Residence." The House Elections Committee took up the case of Representative James Montgomery Beck, charged by Democrats with having established his residence in Philadelphia solely in order to be elected to the House and thus be able to defend Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania, whose lawyer Mr. Beck was (TIME, Dec. 19). The Beck abode in Philadelphia, leased only a few months before his election, is an apartment in a low grade quarter of the city where Senator-suspect Vare has absolute political control. Testifying last week, Mr. Beck said: "It's an honest residence...
...could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models of all the special tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges without which the U. S. cannot defend itself...
...five weeks, Judge Chester R. Shook of Cincinnati, and a jury of ten men and two women, listened to stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, attorney, defend stout, baldheaded raucous George Remus, accused of murder. The two Messrs. Remus were physically one-and-the-same man, but Judge Shook was impotent to prevent them from acting as separate entities in his courtroom, where they convinced the jury that still a third stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus had committed the murder...