Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own lifetime as Rayner Goddard. Unlike one famed predecessor. Sir Edward Coke, he made no great contribution to English law, but his blunt style and sharp knowledge of the law made him one of the most feared and respected men in England. The son of a London solicitor who had heard law around the house since childhood, Goddard, after Oxford, once stood for Parliament as the "Purity Candidate" against a man who had been divorced. His defeat was so disastrous that he never dabbled in politics again. In 1923 he "took silk," i.e., became a King's Counsel...
...Hague came rumbles of royal displeasure. Outwardly composed, the smiling Queen was reportedly angry, partly because the Townsend-Margaret reunion had driven the carefully publicized royal tour off London's front pages. Less than 24 hours after the tête-à-tête, Townsend's solicitor issued a statement from his client: "There are no grounds whatever for supposing that my seeing Princess Margaret in any way alters the situation declared specifically in the autumn of 1955" (when she told the nation that she would not marry the divorced onetime royal equerry). Still smiling, the Queen...
Mind Cure. In Atlanta, taking a tolerant view of the bigamy charge against Jackson L. Langford, 96, the solicitor general said that he probably got mixed up through "just being absent-minded...
...father, who was one of the greatest men I have ever known, I must comment on your references to him. It is true that he lost campaigns for Congress, for the Senate, and twice for the governorship. However, he was never appointed judge. He had served as solicitor general of the old western circuit, one of the largest in Georgia, before I was born. He was consistently elected to judicial office, including judge of the Superior Court, chief judge of the Court of Appeals, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which position he occupied at the time...
Died. William Allen Jowitt, 72, first (1952) Earl Jowitt; in Bury St. Edmunds, England. Famed British barrister and sometime (1922-24) Liberal Member of Parliament, Jowitt was Attorney General in the second Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument...