Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was William Henry Hastie, 44, wartime civilian aide to the Secretary of War, and since 1946 governor of the Virgin Islands. Lawyer Hastie became the first Negro on the federal bench when he was appointed U.S. district judge in the Virgin Islands in 1937. Last week he was named to the third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman...
While the Red terror in Czechoslovakia mounted, Hungary's highest court weighed the fate of Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister who had been sentenced to death as a Titoist traitor (TIME, Oct. 3). Rajk had specifically refused to appeal for clemency, but against his will his lawyer had sent an appeal to the Council of People's Courts. Rajk need not have worried: the council, not renowned for its clemency, rejected the appeal. Next day Rajk was hanged, presumably in Budapest...
...Cohens eventually decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands...
...diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom for $430, a $900 home workshop for $410. When the auctioneer's gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five weeks' lost salary were deducted, they hoped they would just about break even. Sighed Mrs. Cohen: "I never hope to win anything again. Once is enough...
...years. Husky, able Accountant Ed McCormick has headed up many an SEC stock flotation inquiry, including that of the Tucker Corp., some of whose officers are under indictment in Chicago (TIME, June 20). Also nominated to the commission to succeed Robert K. McConnaughey, who resigned last summer, was Washington Lawyer Donald C. Cook, 40, onetime SEC staffer, longtime Department of Justice aide. Later, the five-man commission will elect as chairman one of the three Democrats - McCormick, Cook, or Commissioner Paul Rowen...