Word: edelman
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Both Farmer and Marshall got interested in the Rosenbergs through correspondence with a professional soapbox orator and left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles. Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument. Its gist: the Rosenbergs were wrongly sentenced under the Espionage Act of 1917, which allows the judge to fix the death penalty; they should have been sentenced under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which provides the death penalty for atomic espionage only when a jury so recommends...
CI.O. executives, feeling that they are being ignored by the Administration, largely because the White House has failed to approve the Textile Workers' John Edelman as an Assistant Secretary of Labor, have appropriated $1,000,000 for a radio & TV program to attack President Eisenhower. Said one C.I.O. leader: "I move we tell [the Administration] to go to hell...
...CRIMSON editor travelling through Austria this summer, Mr. Edelman was obliged to mall this dispatch from Salzburg, since, in four-power occupied Vienna, as he points out, "censors strike out all anti-Soviet remarks in letters...
Finding their original objective away, the Mount Ida bevy alighted instead on Richard M. Edelman '52, who had carelessly left his door ajar...
...didn't mind," chortled Edelman; but the rest of Dunster did. The eight Mount Ida voices carried, two dozen spectators walked in, a suspecting superintendent phoned, and within ten minutes the party was over...