Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Taft, a leading Ohio lawyer and political power in Cincinnati, has been one of Yale's most, active alumni for a number of years...
...Network has hired a Washington lawyer, Harry Warner, to handle its case...
Target In a Trailer. Hugo Sims, who is a lawyer, taught-and he learned. "I'm trying," he explained, "to work out a liberal program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote...
...Order. This week, like a diligent lawyer checking up on the fine-print clauses, Maclean's magazine stepped in to warn the landlord that the new tenant was not all he seemed to be. Maclean's Ottawa editor, Blair Fraser, wrote an eyebrow-lifting article entitled "Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada." He charged that U.S. legal privileges in Newfoundland were out of line, and that Newfoundlanders had no real protection of law against the U.S. forces. Fraser cited examples...
...Carpenter's Apprentice. McShain, the son of a prominent Philadelphia builder, entered Georgetown University at 19, intending to become a lawyer. But when his father died in John's freshman year, he decided to carry on the business. For three years he worked on the job with his employees, learning to be a carpenter ("That's what a builder really is"). At night he went back to the office to study bookkeeping and estimating. In 1930 he got his first chance-the Philadelphia Board of Education's $2,100,000 Administration Building. "It looked...