Download or read book Lawyer s Lawyer written by William Henry Harbaugh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of John W Davis written by Theodore A. Huntley and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wyoming Range War written by John W. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
Download or read book Lawyer s Lawyer the Life of John W Davis written by William Henry Harbaugh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer's Lawyer is a vibrant portrait of the most renowned corporate and constitutional attorney of this century. John W. Davis was, among other things, the most distinguished apologist for the cause of segregation in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case; Ambassador to England when questions of the Versailles Treaty, and Irish Independence were current; and the Democratic presidential candidate against Calvin Coolidge in 1924. William Harbaugh's biography not only reveals the actions and thoughts of this highly complex individual, but also presents a unique inside look at the American experience in the first half of the 20th century.
Download or read book The Ambassadorial Diary of John W Davis written by John William Davis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and family historians might note that several thousand people are mentioned as well.
Download or read book Speech of Hon John W Davis of West Virginia in the House of Representatives May 14 1912 written by John William Davis and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of Tom Horn written by John W. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis’s book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming’s grazing land. Davis also portrays an enigmatic defendant who, more than a century after his conviction and hanging, perplexes us still. Tom Horn was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after Willie’s father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.
Download or read book Rainy Street Stories written by John W. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainy Street Stories is a composition of powerful reflections on today's espionage, terrorism, and secret wars. These stories, essays, and poems by John Davis, himself a retired intelligence officer, take place from Europe, to Asia, and back to the Americas. He lived overseas for many years, where he served as a soldier, civil servant, and gifted linguist. Davis writes with a thoughtful, compassionate, and fair assessment of his lifetime lived during wars and conflicts which were his generation's legacy from World War II. He recounts mysterious, sometimes strangely suggestive, even curiously puzzling tales. Each will cause the reader to think. Davis draws from actual encounters in unusual circumstances, in conversations at utterly unexpected times, and chance meetings, historical site visits, or his readings to illustrate his reflections. Moreover, he is influenced by carefully listening to others who experienced history, from careful study of human nature, observation of international events, but also by remaining open to surprises, the better to distill the essence of a hidden truth. Those people about whom he speculates, events he interprets, motives he muses about, or wonders he reveals will remain with you for a long time. These are not writings to be read in a night, but to be reflected upon over the coming years.
Download or read book John W Davis written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typed, signed note America John William Davis (April 13, 1873 - March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as a United States Representative from West Virginia (1911-1913), then as Solicitor General of the United States and US Ambassador to the UK under President Woodrow Wilson. Over a 60-year legal career, he argued 140 cases before the US Supreme Court. Davis is best known as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States during the 1924 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge. Davis was one of the most prominent and successful lawyers of the first half of the 20th century, arguing 140 cases before the US Supreme Court. His firm, variously titled Stetson Jennings Russell & Davis, then Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed, then Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (now Davis Polk & Wardwell), represented many of the largest companies in the United States in the 1920s and following decades. From 1931 to 1933, Davis also served as president of the New York City Bar Association. The last twenty years of Davis's practice included representing large corporations before the United States Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality and application of New Deal legislation. Davis lost many of these battles. Davis argued 140 cases before the US Supreme Court during his career. Some of these were as Solicitor General, but more were as a private lawyer. One of Davis' most influential arguments before the Supreme Court was in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer in May 1952, when the Court ruled on Truman's seizure of the nation's steel plants.
Download or read book ADDRESS OF HONORABLE JOHN W DA written by John W. (John William) 1873-1955 Davis and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vast Amount of Trouble written by John W. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events leading up to the Spring Creek raid, the gripping trial that followed, and the trial's aftermath, which brought an end to Wyoming's violent range wars. Reprint.
Download or read book John W Davis for President written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Track to Waste Free Manufacturing written by John W. Davis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition, yet large numbers of manufacturers simply do not recognize what it is all about. Many still operate under out dated manufacturing practices and do not see that the enemy is not the competition, but rather their own system of production.
Download or read book The Life of John W Davis written by Theodore A. Huntley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of Acceptance of Hon John W Davis Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Delivered at Clarksburg West Virginia Aug 11 1924 written by John William Davis and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of John W Davis written by Theodore A. Huntley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Download or read book High Tide of American Conservatism Davis Coolidge and the 1924 Election written by Garland Tucker and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have generally failed to understand the significance of the election of 1924, the last time both major political parties nominated a bona fide conservative candidate. 'The High Tide of American Conservatism' casts new light on both the election and the two candidates, John W. Davis and Calvin Coolidge. Both nominees articulately expounded a similar philosophy of limited government and maximum individual freedom; and both men were exemplary public servants.
