Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manhattan lawyers were no longer permitted or willing to enter the case of John Peter Zenger in 1735, an eminent Philadelphian named Andrew Hamilton was called in to defend Printer Zenger on charges of seditious libel of New York's Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...unscheduled feature of the finale, the participants were swamped with requests for their briefs from leading law firms in all parts of the country. One of these came from Stanley F. Reed Solicitor-General of the U. S., who will defend the government's case when the issue comes before the Supreme Court shortly...
...Reorganization, which goes to Congress this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...
...portrait in words of herself with the object of rectifying many fantastic reports concerning her person ally. Therefore Mrs. Simpson noted with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with the Duke of Windsor by telephone...
...historic broadcast, Prince Edward did not defend either himself or Mrs. Simpson. That would have been undignified. The skeleton must not be jangled. Unmentioned therefore by Prince Edward was the clash of wills between himself and the Church of England over whether the Archbishop of Canterbury would refuse or consent to officiate at the Coronation and consecration of a King who intended to marry a woman such as Mrs. Simpson (see p. 18). In the House of Lords, the Archbishop spoke volumes when he said in a broken voice, "Of the motive which compelled the renunciation we dare not speak...