Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he had won the coveted apprenticeship job of law-clerking for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children...
Few men had seemed more surely marked for success, and few had found the path to it more smooth. Handsome, popular, effortlessly brilliant, Alger Hiss had been a Harvard protégé of Felix Frankfurter, secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Among the New Deal'...
They were as different as two men could be. William Lloyd Garrison was the son of a hard-drinking sailor, Wendell Phillips the son of a rich Boston lawyer. Garrison had picked up scraps of knowledge as a printer's devil, Phillips had been a Harvard dandy. Garrison wore...
Aristocrat in Politics. A witness of this riot was a tall, fair-haired young lawyer who, it was generally agreed, had a brilliant career before him. Wendell Phillips, shocked by the mob violence, became interested in Garrison's movement. His family thought him mad. When he threw himself into...