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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assigned by the court to defend Anthony Cramer, charged with treason for helping Nazi agents who had been landed in the U.S. by U-boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...World Federalists will challenge the Harvard United Nations Council tonight to defend the success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Council to Debate World Federalists on Revising UN Tonight | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Dean Sturges is expected to defend the small legal institution, stressing its benefits of individual attention and informality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Defends Yale's Legal System Tonight | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

Houghteling tried to defend his as yet untried motion, which was designed to bring more money this year to the Council's charities and service fund by the easy payment plan. He pleaded against the "hasty action" of the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Swap Tickets; Bingham Reports on H A A | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

While the Commission on Saturday adhered to its stand on Communist teachers, it "wished also to emphasize again that citizens should be especially alert at this time to defend the essential need of their schools for freedom of teaching and learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Eisenhower Oppose Loyalty Laws for Teachers | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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