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...direct the Graduate Center plead accounting complications as the reason for the almost complete segregation of lawyers and arts and sciences students into separate dormitories. Perhaps a greater effort could have cleared up these complications before the opening of the Center, but they can certainly be straightened out in time for next year's redistribution of rooms...
...President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
Reuter also had to make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
When the story got out, there was a hue & cry about "white man's justice." Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) LaFarge and his Association on American Indian Affairs appealed the case to Idaho's Supreme Court on the ground that the defendants were "not competent" to plead guilty without lawyers. Last week the court voided District Judge Albert Morgan's sentence, ordered a new trial. But perhaps the case would be dropped. The people of Idaho, thought Prosecutor O'Donnell (as surprised as anyone at the severity of the sentence), "don't want these Indians prosecuted...
...Adams was summoned to Boston to help plead Massachusetts' case against the Stamp Act before the British governor. Three years later, on the advice of his jackanapes genius cousin, Sam Adams, who had the workingmen of Boston in his political pocket, John moved to the city. In short order he was the leading legal light in that litigious colony, and the legal brains of the native Whigs...