Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years, as a trial lawyer, he did not lose a single case...
Next time Alger Hiss stood trial for perjury in connection with the Whittaker Chambers "pumpkin papers" espionage case (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948 et seq.), he wanted some changes made. Dispensing with the flamboyant talents of Manhattan Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker (who got a hung jury last time), Hiss hired a new lawyer: Mississippi-born, Harvard-trained Claude B. Cross, 55, a conservative Bostonian who specializes in business law, but who donated his services in 1947 to the defense of convicted Traitor Douglas...
MANNERS & MORALS Lawyer Knows Best
Erie Stanley Gardner, who, in the past 16 years, has ground out 62 whodunits (mostly about Lawyer Perry Mason), landed in Manhattan after a visit to England, with an expert's explanation of Britain's low crime rate: "Respect for the law. Over here, it's kind of a game ... If you think you can get away with passing a red light, you will. The British don't look at it that...
Bustles & Bonnets. Wellesley was founded by a wealthy Boston lawyer named Henry Fowle Durant, who contributed $1,000,000 for the training of future teachers and "the glory of God." Its first students numbered 314-a bewildered group in bustles & bonnets, who were carted in horse-drawn "barges" up to old College Hall...