Word: jowitt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...London courtroom. On the bench, pale and dignified in a black gown and white wig, last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious...
What everyone waited for was Prince Youssoupov's sworn story of the killing of Rasputin. MGM's counsel, ponderous Sir William Jowitt, pieced it together by leading questions and quotations from Prince Youssoupov's book, Rasputin...
What M-G-M was paying Sir William Jowitt's large fee for was not to get this story made a matter of oath but to try to show that the cinema characters of Prince Chegodiev and Princess Natasha were not drawn from the Youssoupovs. Very quickly he made the following points...
...charge was relatively simple, the trial extremely complex. Conducted by Attorney General Sir William Jowitt and defended by "Britain's foremost barrister," Sir John Simon of Indian Commission fame, the trial resolved itself into a debate on business ethics with the text: Should a company director tell-and how much? Lord Kylsant thought a director should not tell...
...Liberal (Lloyd George is No. 1), famed Sir John Simon. The Crown's major champion will be a former Liberal who suddenly switched into the Labor Party when Scot MacDonald offered him the post of Attorney General of Great Britain in the second Labor Government. Switcher Sir William Jowitt was elected a Liberal M. P. at the last general election (1929), but later in a by-election was returned as Labor M. P. by his old constituents...