Word: solicitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hands. Through his one good eye he views the world with the wary and defiant air of a man who suspects the worst, and expects to deal with it. Last week he was in jail and proud of it. The charge: forcibly taking the pants off an elderly solicitor...
Then his cousin, a maiden lady, died, and left the bulk of her $230,000 estate to her elderly solicitor, one Frederick Harry Nye. Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...
...Nominated Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Maryland (Sobeloff's home state). West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina circuit...
Last week the court drew the line itself. Unanimously, the court struck down the executive claim to plenary powers. "The Government may not arbitrarily restrain the liberty of a citizen to travel," said the decision, written by Circuit Judge Charles Fahy, onetime U.S. Solicitor General. "Discretionary power does not carry with it the right of its arbitrary exercise...
...lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...