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Coop officials believe that the loading bay they plan to build will meet the ordinance requirement. Both the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals and the City Solicitor have agreed and have approved the plans...
...Wilkins trial was high courtroom drama with a rich cast of characters: the jury, all natives of Alabama except for one man, a transplanted Floridian; Circuit Judge Thomas Werth Thagard, 63, a gently humorous man with a long and respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table...
Turner will join at least four other Law School Professors now working in Washington. They are Archibald cox '34, solicitor General of the U.S., John McNaughton, assistant secretary of Defense, Stanley S. Surrey, assistant secretary of the Treasury, and James Vorenberg '49, who heads the office of Criminal Justice...
...answer to that," he declared and took the bullhorn from the SNCC leader's hands. "The possee was getting orders from the sheriff and the country solicitor," he told the crowd. "I had no control over them. I didn't want any violence, I simply wanted to contain the large group. I didn't want the crowd dispersed...
Though he rejected the job of U.S. Solicitor General in 1932 (the same year he turned down a judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice...