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After hearing testimony from Simms and his day editor, Stanley Atkins, who had also seen the altered vote sheets, the grand jury indicted two pro-Porter politicos: Russell County Solicitor Arch Ferrell (who said he was innocent), and Chairman Lamar Reid of Jefferson County's Democratic Executive Committee (who would make no statement...
...indictment, Publisher Greenspun could thank Joe McCarthy. Three months ago, McCarthy's office sent the Greenspun column to the Post Office Department and asked whether the paper should lose its second-class mailing privileges for violating postal regulations. Later, said Post Office Solicitor Abe McGregor Goff, the Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last...
Jackson, who has been a member of the Supreme Court since 1941, served after the second world war as United States chief counsel in the Nuremberg war crime trials. Before his appointment to the bench he had served as general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Solicitor General, and Attorney General of the United States...
...Solicitor General of the U.S. (the Government's lawyer in cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition...
...Have you had any favors from anyone?" the solicitor general asked. Said Nkrumah: "No, nothing...