Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
Ackland's nieces & nephews rushed to court to seek the fortune they had given up as lost. The University of North Carolina (with the late Ambassador to Britain O. Max Gardner as lawyer) and Rollins (with ex-U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings) followed. First to lose out, after five years' litigation, were the nieces & nephews. That left the two colleges to fight it out between themselves...
...bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
Gleeful Lectures. In the end, it is his biographer who has all the fun. Stryker quotes endlessly from Erskine's speeches, revels in his courtroom technique, lectures the reader gleefully in little asides on the art of pleading. Sample: "[The lawyer] must do the jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many...