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McCarthy-Army Hearings

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: McCarthy-Army hearings. Left to right: G. David Schine, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Roy Cohn.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn

Date: 01 1953
Description: Joseph (Joe) McCarthy is seen here with his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, whom he hired on the advice of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Senior Law Students Tossing Canes

Date: 11 08 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin senior law school students toss their canes over the south goal post, a Badger tradition at the annual University of Wisconsin foot...
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International Engine Advertising Proof

Date: 11 1950
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of a lawyer "questioning" an Internat...
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Wiley Branton and Thurgood Marshall

Date: 1957
Description: Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ...
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Daisy Bates and NAACP Lawyer Robert Carter

Date: 12 03 1957
Description: Daisy Bates confers with NAACP lawyer Robert Carter, after she was fined $100 and court costs of $150 for failure to open confidential NAACP financial and ...
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President of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association

Date: 05 14 1950
Description: Portrait of Francis Garrity, Jefferson County district attorney and president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association. He is being urged to run for...
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Emmett Till Trial

Date: 09 19 1955
Description: Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, (left to right) with their attorney on the opening day of their trial for the murder of Emmett Till. The 14-ye...
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Jacob Marchowsky and Attorney

Date: 11 14 1950
Description: J.H. "Jake" Marachowsky, right, former president of the bankrupt Portage Wholesale Company, standing beside his attorney, Jacob Geffs, Janesville.
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Thomas Fairchild Taking Oath

Date: 03 30 1951
Description: Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ...
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Federal Judge with Son-in-Law Attorney

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone shaking the hand of his son-in-law, William F. Yeschek, who was admitted to practice law in the western Wisconsin federal di...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Joseph E. Davies at Phi Delta Phi Dinner

Date: 11 16 1951
Description: Joseph E. Davies (second from the left), one-time U.S. ambassador and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, receives congratulations at a dinner after b...
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Larceny Trial

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Corporal Don Price Jr., Truax Field soldier, is shown at far right as he pleads guilty to larceny charges involving credit union funds in Superior Court. A...
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Larceny Trial

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Alice Yngsdahl, center right, is shown in Superior Court with her attorney, W. Curtis Farmer, as Court Clerk Virginia McRedmond, right, reads the complaint...
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Two auctioneers posing with books to be auctioned off at the Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that will benefit the professional women in journa...
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Oliver S. Rundell Dinner

Date: 04 16 1952
Description: Oliver S. Rundell, retiring Dean of the UW Law School, was honored at a banquet at the Hotel Loraine. Left to right are Attorney J.D. Darrow, Argyle; Dean ...
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Leonard Schmitt Talkathon

Date: 08 08 1952
Description: Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the Republican nomination in the primary, is pictured half-way ...
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Leonard Schmitt Talkathon

Date: 08 12 1952
Description: Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the Republican nomination in the primary, is pictured as he end...
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Leonard Schmitt Talkathon

Date: 08 12 1952
Description: Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the Republican nomination in the primary, is shaking hands with...

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