Word: owen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Judge Luther Youngdahl listened quietly to an unprecedented attack. Lawyers often accuse judges of prejudice against the defense, but it was unheard of for a federal prosecutor to accuse a federal judge of "personal bias and prejudice . . . against the Government." The charge grew out of the case of Owen Lattimore, who once exerted much influence on American policies in China and who has since been accused of promoting Communism. Last year Judge Youngdahl dismissed four perjury indictments against Lattimore. Last week, with new indictments coming up for trial, U.S. Attorney Leo Rover looked Judge Youngdahl...
There is no question that Dartmouth brings important men to speak to its seniors. Speakers who have appeared in the past few years include such named as Dean Acheson, Sherman Adams, Crane Brinton, Dean Bundy, President-Emeritus Conant, Raphael Demos, Irwin Edman, Erich Fromm, Wilbur K. Jordan, Owen Lattimore, Archibald MacLeish, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul J. Tillich...
...Government last week accused Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl of personal prejudice in favor of Owen Lattimore, and asked the jurist to disqualify himself from the bench during Lattimore's forthcoming trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were...
...Justice Department won a round last week in the case of Owen Lattimore, once an important influence in framing U.S. policy in the Far East. Last summer a U.S. Court of Appeals voided the key count in Lattimore's perjury indictment -for denying that he was "a sympathizer of Communism"-because the word "sympathizer" has too many differing dictionary definitions...
...Blackstone in his saddlebags while riding out to herd sheep. In 1905 he was admitted to the practice of law; within ten years he was chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, and in 1920 he achieved national attention as counsel for Mary Pickford in her divorce action against Owen Moore (Mary got the divorce, and Pat ended up with her Nevada ranch...