Word: pleader
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...three checks, cashing them. Chief result of Miss Martin's plea: disappointment in Hollywood, whose curious citizenry had hoped Miss Martin would give in court the name of Miss Simon's male friend to whom she had presented, last Christmas, gold keys to her house. Snapped Pleader Martin: "You'll never know who got them...
...partisans are, in the main, labor idealists. The antiC. I. O. faction is opposed to the idea of industrial unionization, which would lump them together with janitors, waitresses, cooks, furnacemen, everyone else who worked around a school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader foi the A. F. of L. was Henry Ohl Jr., chunky, prey president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor for two decades. Able, hardworking, a Socialist for 40 years until the Socialists got too deep a shade of red for him, President Ohl has led his State organization into profitable alliances with...
...shipping lobbyists. Finally the President turned to his most effective and trusted extra-Cabinet friend, red-headed Joe Kennedy. Every night for two weeks a White House limousine met Joe Kennedy as he landed from Manhattan at the Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President got the Solicitor General to rule that it would not, if the stock were, sold...
...clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24), the second to tear up the air armament clauses (TIME, Jan. 6), and perhaps others suspected in Belgium but as yet undisclosed. Since King Leopold's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy, family ties make His Majesty a pleader of Italy's cause in addition to Belgium's at the Court of St. James...
...nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land skittering in search of a blue pencil...