Word: pleaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...year ago Howard Shirley Palmer walked in through the accounting office to the presidency of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. when big, bluff John Jeremiah Pelley walked out to become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing...
...Oxford, N. C., subsequently sat for four years on the State bench. During the Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another, he did not set himself up as a rival of the potent and popular Professor Frankfurter...
...spats and morning coats, two young men in ordinary business suits rose to argue. One was Emanuel Redfield, representing Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he opened the argument, choked over some of his words, swallowed others, was obviously abashed. The other sack-suited pleader was Attorney Perry arguing his own case, which he did with maximum brevity, maximum precision. Most embarrassing moment fell to James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty...