Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shouting, no matter how violent or antisocial their rhetoric." Other observers are persuaded that Klan strength will decline only when the people who are now attracted to it get a bigger share of the South's economic boom. Until then, say Mary Joyce Carlson, a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta whose car was once shot at by Klansmen, "any group with simple ready-made answers will have some support...
General "Wild Bill" Donovan, who died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier, Secretary of State Henry Stimson had declared that "gentlemen do not read each other's mail." But Donovan persuaded F.D.R. that such etiquette need not apply in dealings with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and thus the U.S.'s first independent intelligence agency was born...
Kuhn sent a letter outlining his position to Mays' new employer one month ago, but neither Mays nor his lawyer was shown the letter. Mays learned of the matter only when Kuhn gave him a week to choose between baseball and casinos. He was shocked by the ultimatum. Says Mays: "I don't have anything to do with gambling. I just play golf with the customers, and after that, they take pictures and the customers put them on their office walls. That's all there...
Only a few people qualify as buddies: Senator John Culver, of Iowa; former Senator John Tunney, of California; Real Estate Developer Claude Hooton, who lives in Houston; and New York Lawyer Timothy Hanan. These men know his worries and can talk openly with...
...Baker is a sharpie. Of all the members of the Senate Watergate investigation, he is one of the few who was able to turn the hearings to his advantage. Letters poured into the senator's office encouraging him to run for president. The dimpled photogenic Baker, who exchanged backwoods lawyer logic and Southern wit with the parade of Nixon appointees and committee chairman Sam Ervin, gained a following that he has not yet lost...