Word: attorney
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Last week Thomas E. Dewey, running like a mountain jack rabbit, scorched through St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Wis., burning up energy, microphones and the New Deal. The hard little attorney with the shoebrush mustache continued to make the best Republican speeches U. S. citizens have heard in many a day, continued also to be allotted the No. 2 slot, at most, by professional GOP ticket makers. The Dewey keynote-that the New Deal means defeatism-still echoed in the U. S. like a shout down a well...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...
...last December, in spite of another reorganization and sale of another $24,000 in stock, the News was $15,000 behind in its payments to Mrs. Milton, its bonds had been in default for nearly six months, entitling the bondholders to take control. Mrs. Milton's attorney, Sam J. McAllester, was secretary of Roy McDonald's grocery chain. One bleak day last December, Lawyer McAllester told Milton that a sale had been arranged for the News and accepted by the bondholders' committee. Purchaser: Roy McDonald...
Born in County Mayo, Ireland, O'Dwyer had walked a beat as a New York City cop, had studied and practiced law, been appointed a magistrate, elevated to a county judgeship. His brother had been mortally wounded by three gunmen during a Brooklyn café holdup. District Attorney O'Dwyer took office with a deep hatred of gangsters. Forthwith he assigned a staff of men to go back into the murders of Alpert, Sage, Rudnick, Penn...