Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have Been Framed." Judy's hands began to move. Hour after hour she tried to explain. She had not slept with Shapiro, a young lawyer in the Department of Justice. He was just a friend in the office. They had gone to Baltimore to buy Judy a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia still looking for a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded...
...Lawyer Lloyd Stryker's voice lifted in pride and reverence last week. "Call Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter," he said. Dressed in an ordinary brown suit but robed in his uncommon prestige, little Justice Frankfurter stepped to the stand. He had come from the Supreme Court to Manhattan to be a character witness for Alger Hiss, his onetime Harvard law student, on trial in Federal Court for perjury. The Government had rested and Alger Hiss had begun his defense...
...road to statism," proclaimed Jimmy as Washington and Lee University handed him an honorary doctor of laws degree. "Where we will wind up no one can tell. But if some of the new programs seriously proposed should be adopted, there is danger that the individual-whether farmer, worker, manufacturer, lawyer, or doctor-will soon be an economic slave pulling an oar in the galley of the state...
Stanley Reed, Kentucky-born, onetime Solicitor General, once a practical dirt fanner, writer of pedestrian opinions, rated as an able lawyer...
Alumnus Frank B. Ober, a Maryland lawyer, had written to propose that "practical steps" be taken to eliminate "disloyal teachers." By their extracurricular pronouncements, said Ober, such men as Astronomer Harlow Shapley were giving "aid and comfort to Communism." The university's answer: "Harvard is not afraid of freedom . . . Teachers have rights as citizens to speak and write as men of independence . . . There will be no harassment of professors...