Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
...mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley Jr.; from time to time Kelley brushed chewed fragments of Palmer's Life Savers from his hair...
...writer of the New York Herald Tribune; Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal; Canham; Hodding Cartor, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi); Marquis W. Childs, Washington columnist; Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal; Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin; Reston; and Paul Smith, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Briton decried "witch-hunting" of Communists in this country, and said, "In ten years you will be as ashamed of it as you were ten years after the Mitchell-Palmer affair...
...Avery mulled things over in lonely grandeur. He knew it would be hard to get new officers from outside (Marshall Field's Executive Vice President James L. Palmer had recently turned down Avery's offer of Ward's presidency). So Avery appointed eight new vice presidents by upping No. 2 men. Presumably, Avery thought this would put him in a better position to fight his critics at this week's stockholders' meeting...