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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert Witness. The Government's case was argued briefly by young (34), handsome John Sonnett. Once he caused Lewis' lawyers to sit up straight. He quoted what Lewis himself had said about the Krug-Lewis contract, under which the miners had gone back to work after last spring's 59-day strike. Posing with Krug for the newsreels, John had proclaimed: "It settles for the period of Government operation all the questions at issue." Wasn't Lewis going back on that statement when he demanded in October that the Government discuss a new contract-and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Citizen & Sovereign | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Norris-LaGuardia act, Sonnett recalled what onetime Congressman and labor expert Fiorello LaGuardia had said during the 1932 debate: "I do not see," LaGuardia said then, "how in any possible way the United States can be brought in under the provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Citizen & Sovereign | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Goldsborough said Lewis really ought to be sent to prison. But the Justice Department recommended against a prison sentence. Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett, questioned by the judge, frankly said it would "make a martyr" out of Lewis. The judge yielded to this view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supreme Court May Get Lewis Case Immediately; Beck Sends Oakland Teamsters Back to Job | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

Goldsborough also asked Sonnett what he thought of a continuing fine of $250,000 a day, extending into the future. But Sonnett said the government was not yet prepared to ask such a fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supreme Court May Get Lewis Case Immediately; Beck Sends Oakland Teamsters Back to Job | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

...only hospital in the U.S. devoted exclusively to people who stutter, lisp, mumble, use baby talk, are tongue-tied or have cleft palates* is Manhattan's National Hospital for Speech Disorders. Last week the hospital, founded by Dr. James Sonnett Greene, celebrated its 25th anniversary, announced that it had treated a total of more than 38,000 children and adult patients (70% without payment), had helped most of them to normal speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Stutter? | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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