New York The Macmillan Company 1929 Reprint. Second printing, 1929 Hardcover Fair xvi, 881, [3] pages. Illustrations. Authorities. References. Index. Name of previous owner present. Cover worn and soiled. Front board weak and reglued. Spines torn top and bottom. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Pencil notes on fep and a few marks to text noted. Lloyd Paul Stryker (June 5, 1885-June 1955) was a 20th-Century American attorney known as "perhaps the most celebrated criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow, " best known as chief of defense in the first criminal trial of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1949. In 1909 he received an MA in Law from New York Law School. In 1933, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters. In 1909, he was admitted to the New York bar. From 1910 to 1922, he served as assistant district attorney in New York. In 1914 (or 1912), he received the Republican nomination for judge of the New York City Court. He then formed the law firm of Whiteside and Stryker. In 1928, Stryker declined a chair in criminal law at Harvard. In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge nominated him for a federal judgeship, but before his confirmation, President Herbert Hoover came into office and did not renominate him. During the Great Depression, Stryker's use made popular the word "boondoggle". Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808-July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassinat ...

ISBN10: 0403012317, ISBN13: 9780403012312, [publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York] Hardcover xvi, 881, [3] pages. Illustrations. Authorities. References. Index. Name of previous owner present. Cover worn and soiled. Front board weak and reglued. Spines torn top and bottom. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Pencil notes on fep and a few marks to text noted. Lloyd Paul Stryker (June 5, 1885 - June 1955) was a 20th-Century American attorney known as "perhaps the most celebrated criminal lawyer since Clarence Darrow," best known as chief of defense in the first criminal trial of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1949. In 1909 he received an MA in Law from New York Law School. In 1933, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters. In 1909, he was admitted to the New York bar. From 1910 to 1922, he served as assistant district attorney in New York. In 1914 (or 1912), he received the Republican nomination for judge of the New York City Court. He then formed the law firm of Whiteside and Stryker. In 1928, Stryker declined a chair in criminal law at Harvard. In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge nominated him for a federal judgeship, but before his confirmation, President Herbert Hoover came into office and did not renominate him. During the Great Depression, Stryker's use made popular the word "boondoggle". Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as h ...

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