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...Daniel Webster: You seem to have an excellent acquaintance with the law, sir. The Devil: Sir, that is no fault of mine. Where I come from, we have always gotten the pick...
...months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students a taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, and even Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial...
...Southampton, N. Y.; Douglas S, Gardner of Hamden, Conn.; James R. Hammond Jr. of Marblehead, Mass.; Benjamin H. Hechscher (Capt.) of Devon, Pa.; Henry C. Holmes of Hampton, Conn.; John W. Lonsdale Jr. of New York City; Grayson M. Murphy 3d of New York City; Charlton MacVeagh Jr. of Webster Groves, Mo.; Anthony M. Ostheimer of Whitford, Pa.; Henry C. Place of Rosemont, Pa.; Robert P. Goold (Mgr.) of Ventura, Calif...
John E. Craig of Webster Groves, Mo.; Philip J. Erard of Springfield, Mass.; Paul G. Forand of New Bedford, Mass.; David J. Kenney of Brighton, Mass.; John C. Livingston of New Haven, Conn.; William P. Pierskalla of Bemidji, Minn.; Walton H. Rawls of Atlanta, Ga.; Lester B. Sherer (Capt.) of Des Moines, Ia.; Stephen J. Schneider of Great Neck, L. J.; Clifford F. Thompson of Fairway, Kan.; Daniel J. Gillis (Mgr.) of New Bedford, Mass...
...prodigious memory stored up more facts than the federal records. One judge so respected Webster's accuracy that he fell into the habit of delivering oral opinions, using Webster's report of them as the written opinion. Once, in court, while covering the arraignment before a federal commissioner of a man charged with stealing, Webster decided that the evidence had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure). Webster took over as the man's lawyer and got him freed...