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...comptroller expired last month. Saxon scoffed at Clark's opinion as "superficial," forecast a new wave of litigation over branching laws, criticized the way the Government had defended his position. "The original brief prepared in our office was masterly," he said, "but it was emasculated by the Solicitor General's office. This case went down by default...
...police force before being asked to New York by Lindsay. Leary has displayed not only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree in public administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget Bureau and deputy director...
...City Editor Leo Hirtl of the Cincinnati Post & Times-Star, the rumor that City Solicitor William McClain was in a jam rated a routine check. Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials. The reporter discovered that McClain had appointed a man named William Jackson to appraise a recently settled estate. Jackson, it turned out, was a pseudonym for Norman S. Payne, a probate court employee who got a fee of $100, although he was not entitled to indulge in such moonlighting...
Case of the Missing Heirs. City Solicitor McClain, Horner discovered, had been doing some moonlighting of his own-as attorney for the same $38,977 estate that Jackson-Payne had worked over. Only McClain, whose services had been legal enough, had received a whopping fee of $8,625. Working at the rate of $25 an hour, he would have had to put in 345 hours to earn his paya staggering amount of time to spend on so small an estate...
Having shot down the city solicitor, the Post & Times-Star focused its attention on Probate Court Judge Chase M. Davies. It turned out that during his 19 years on the bench, he had made a practice of appointing relatives and close friends as appraisers. Out of a $37,575,282 estate left by a Procter & Gamble heiress, two of Judge Davies' friends had each received a $37,575 fee. Upset by the publicity, the probate judge paid two frantic calls on Editor Thornburg to try to persuade him that he was a man of probity. Said Thornburg...