Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer's death...
...said there have been no new contracts for outside day work since last March when the Attorney General's office ruled illegal any contracts for other than strictly domestic work...
When Judge Holtzoff then ordered the trial to begin next week, Thomas' attorney warned that the Congressman had suffered "nervous reaction" just from the doctors' examinations. That, said the judge, seemed perfectly natural under the circumstances...
...judge was tolerant. He interrupted the proceedings to point out a chair for a late-arriving spectator; he didn't mind when plump George Rogers, attorney for the defense, propped his leg or rump on the table during crossexamination...
This week, having cleared the innocent, the Times was trying to find out who was guilty. From the state attorney general, the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, Reporter Guthman extracted a promise to search the Canwell committee's sealed records for the missing resort register. Snapped Canwell: "If you think the register has been suppressed, go find...