Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Gibson, president of the Miami N.A.A.C.P., called on City Manager Ira Willard with a plea that Miami's sternly segregated recreational facilities be opened to Negroes. To the Rev. Gibson's surprise, South Carolinian Willard swiveled in his chair and tossed the question to City Attorney William L. Pallot. The Supreme Court, said Pallot. has made the issue clear-a city has no right to bar Negroes from public facilities. At City Manager Willard's direction, word immediately went out to recreation workers that racial restrictions were...
...three years he worked on a key trustee: Ellsworth C. Alvord, a leading Washington tax attorney and the biggest individual stockholder in General Dynamics Corp. By the time Turbeville got through with Alvord, the lawyer was a convert. By the time Alvord got through with Frank Pace Jr., chairman of General Dynamics, Pace was a dedicated Northland trustee. By this year, tiny Northland has a solid gold board that many a university might envy. Among its members : Presidential Friend George E. Allen, Publisher Gardner Cowles, Industrialist Victor Emanuel, Movie Arbiter Eric Johnston, Financier Floyd B. Odium...
...after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...
...others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...
Something of a surprise winner, Trodden was the third candidate to obtain a quota. Trodden is a former assistant attorney general under the late George Fingold, and the last candidate to be eliminated in the 1957 election...