Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker, who commands some of the highest fees in the business (up to $75,000 a case), was going into his big act: the summation for the defense in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, onetime bright young man of the State Department...
...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
Gentle Inquisitor. Lawyer Hiss, already vouched for by two Supreme Court justices, was a sure-footed witness, with a lawyer's skill with words. Were there conflicts between previous testimony and his story now? He pleaded a faulty previous recollection. He had "no independent recollection" of some points. Of one admitted confusion in his previous testimony, he said coolly: "One could always possibly be mistaken...
...most peculiar in Australia's turbulent labor history. Miners' demands for shorter hours and a three-month long-service vacation after seven years' employment had been pending before the Coal Tribunal. The tribunal's sole member is Francis Heath Gallagher, a lawyer who now spends much of his time in the coal mines and is sympathetic with the miners' grievances...