Word: disbarred
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...Treasury has recently recognized that a taxpayer who acts on a lawyer's advice may be making what is in his judgment an honest return, so this year taxpayers are asked to file an affidavit stating who gave them the advice. The theory is that the Treasury will disbar prom practice before it all those lawyers who habitually advise taxpayers whose returns are found in error...
...public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank of United States officers and their relatives, Counsel Kresel was fingerprinted at police headquarters. The special prosecutor who secured the indictments was another Austrian-born Jew, slick little Max D. Steuer, whom Isidor Kresel had once tried to disbar. Since that time, Lawyer Steuer and Lawyer Kresel had purred vitriolic asides at each other in nearly every court in the State. Their feud became a great legend...
...ordered Richards' license revoked for professional malpractice. The Atwood decision may make legal history. The specific point at issue was whether the Missouri Supreme Court had original jurisdiction in the case. Richards' attorneys claimed that it did not, that it had power to adjudicate only those disbarment cases which came up through the lower courts. Judge Atwood denied this allegation, used it as a point of departure for a broad and far-reaching decision. He declared that the power of disbarment exists in the judicial branch of the Government, independent of any constitutional or statutory grant. Said...
...churchmen who listened to the buzz last September when Rev. William St. John Blackshear, Brooklyn Episcopalian, discouraged the attendance of Negroes in his church, noted that Parson Blackshear did not actually disbar any Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
...only restriction at present made on entering runners is that they shall not have represented a college as university runners in a sectional championship. The intention to enter the New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Championship Run does not disbar applicants...