Word: perlman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...
Injunction Stayed. First Baldridge, then Perlman pleaded with the court for a stay of Pine's injunction pending an immediate appeal to the Supreme Court...
Only by keeping the Government in possession of the mills, they argued, could the workers be induced to call off their strike. Cried Perlman : "This case may involve the very existence of the nation...
...free to seek relief elsewhere." Baldridge, grim and frustrated, stomped out of the courtroom. But that afternoon he showed up again in the grey-walled Circuit Court of Appeals (right next door to Pine's chamber), flanked this time by Acting Attorney General Philip B. Perlman. All the court's nine judges had as sembled to hear almost three hours of argument by Government's top counsel and by a battery of 17 steel lawyers...
Telegrams from the White House. Phil Perlman's victory grin, and the steel lawyers' open dismay, showed how the tide of the legal battle had apparently shifted in the Administration's favor. But Phil Murray did not volunteer to call off the strike. The day after the circuit court decision, Harry Truman had to move again. At his regular news conference, he insisted that he would abide by the court rulings. He had no ambition to be a dictator, he said. He just wanted to keep the country running. That night he sent off telegrams to Phil...