National Affairs: Black Booty (Cont'd)

"Mr. Hogan, I do not believe that I want to hear any more. I have listened to the case very fully. It has been fairly argued on both sides. It does not make any difference whether it is Mr. Silas Strawn or who it is."

When Washington Lawyer Frank Hogan last week heard these words from the mouth of Chief Justice Alfred Adams

Wheat of the District of Columbia's Supreme Court, he may well have feared that he had lost another bout with his favorite adversary, the U.S. Senate. If so, he was mistaken.

As attorney for Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, Mr....

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