Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judicial Tears. The trial began on July 21, 1924-with Defense Lawyer Darrow pleading the boys guilty and winning permission from Judge John R. Caverly to present evidence of "the mental condition of these young men." A month later, as Darrow began his closing argument, a crowd fought wildly for seats in the courtroom, and a bailiff's arm was broken in the scramble. For twelve hours Clarence Darrow argued that the crime had been one of compulsion, that Nathan Leopold and Dickie Loeb could not have helped themselves. When he finished, tears were streaming down Judge Caverly...
...Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, 49, leader of the left-wing faction of the sprawling, middle-of-the-road Radical Party, won Argentina's presidential election this week after the first truly free campaign the country had known in 30 years. With a growing five-to-three margin in the key districts, he apparently handed his opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, a decisive licking...
...Whose Governor Averell Harriman last week named Brooklyn Lawyer Richards W. Hannah as first head (at $17,000 a year) of the new Lottery Control Commission to boss bingo across the state...
...case, the morning Herald piously restricted its coverage of the jampacked libel trial to stories carried by the A.P. But at trial's end the Herald ran a side bar in which Publisher Knight reviewed his stand in the case. Brautigam's attorney, famed San Francisco Trial Lawyer Melvin M. Belli (pronounced Bell-eye), promptly thundered that he would file another suit against the Herald for "republishing libels." Crowed Belli: "Mr. Knight is a charming fellow. He promises to keep me in business for years...
...Philip Dunham Reed, 58, board chairman of General Electric Co. for 19 years, will step down at G.E.'s annual meeting April 23, retire when he reaches 60 next year. A handsome man and a fluent speaker, Reed is an engineer (Wisconsin '21) and a lawyer (Fordham '24), became G.E.'s youngest chairman of the board, served in Washington and London in World War II, has since concentrated on G.E.'s international affairs...