Word: disbarred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urged Attorney General Herbert Brownell and state authorities to disbar any lawyer who is "presently a Communist," or who abuses his professional trust by willfully obstructive tactics in the Communist cause. Two days later, the assembly applauded Brownell's announcement that he had ordered the National Lawyers Guild to "show cause" why it should not be put on his subversive list...
...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...