Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Garfield Rays, prominent New York lawyer, will deliver an address at Harvard tomorrow when he speaks at the Liberal Club. 66 Winthrop Street, on the subject. "Civil Liberty in America." The lecture will be at 1.30 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University...
...Mayor James John Walker the decision brought political joy because he had championed the nickel fare. To Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes it brought legal melancholy because he had drawn up the I. R. T. brief. On Wall Street, I. R. T. stocks dropped 20 points in about the time that it takes a subway train to rush from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year-old son, flipped up a revolver, sent a bullet plowing into the fleshy leg of Deputy Sheriff Smith...
...possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...second day of the trial, Saint Gandhi was allowed to remain away from court. Absent, he was fined one rupee (36¢) which his lawyer refused to pay. As always happens when the Mahatma is fined?and invariably refuses to pay?an unidentified "friend" stepped briskly up and laid down the requisite rupee...