Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixture of contenders at the bar. In a court room filled with elderly legalites in spats and morning coats, two young men in ordinary business suits rose to argue. One was Emanuel Redfield, representing Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he opened the argument, choked over some of his words, swallowed others, was obviously abashed. The other sack-suited pleader was Attorney Perry arguing his own case, which he did with maximum brevity, maximum precision. Most embarrassing moment fell to James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel...
...railroads joined with the Government. The Government's lawyerlike brief was signed by two of its bright young men, Paul A. Freund, onetime secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis, and John G. Laylin, assistant to General Counsel Herman Oliphant, of the Treasury. But the Government's oral argument was definitely less than lawyerlike. Rather than risk his case in the uncertain hands of his Solicitor General, Attorney General Cummings put on his cutaway, striped trousers and derby and marched to the bar in person. Flanking him at this Thermopylae were competent but uninspired Stanley Reed, general counsel...
...mammy singers in the country and bring down upon himself the accusation of slandering every man's dear old mother and dad. The opposition, "If there were any truth whatever in the theory. . . ." therefore, must deny itself the use of a very important point in the argument...
...Washington, Dr. Townsend disposed of Pundit Lippmann's argument with ease. "A very careless job of rationalizing," said he. "My plan is too simple to be comprehended mann's." by great minds like Mr. Lipp
...architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk at other times...