Word: forney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helping lawyers and investigators from Washington learn something last week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...
Minnesota. Director Sidney J. Williams of the Council's public safety division estimated that if all States had rigid license laws 3,000 lives would have been saved last year. The Council's chief statistician, Reuben L. Forney, showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if fatalities increase as much in the next 14 years as in the past 14. Hopefully, Florence I. Anderson, curly-haired, emphatic secretary of the East Bay Safety Council (Oakland, Calif.), declared that California's compulsory driving schools for traffic law violators were proving to be successful accident reducers...
...every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land skittering in search of a blue pencil...
...course it's my point." snapped hapless Forney Johnston...
Most acid Chamberman was Forney Johnston, slender, sharp-nosed Birmingham lawyer who has led the power fight against Tennessee Valley Authority. Calling the New Deal "a witch's dance of uncoordinated legislation" and referring to "the house-top Allah shoutings of Mr. Ickes and other impeccables," he snapped: "If business is vicious, it has required a century and a half to discover...