Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politicking. With obvious relish he busied himself at party politicking. It was a week when he could watch three political plums safely deposited in the hands of three good friends. At a swearing-in ceremony, a function which he always hugely enjoys, he handed ex-Attorney General Tom Clark his commission as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ex-Democratic National Party Chairman Howard McGrath got his commission as Attorney General, and Bill Boyle Jr. got a gavel and the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee...
When the Senators called John back to grill him last week, he turned up with a lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
When investment houses refused to buy Oregon bonds on the grounds that the state was technically insolvent, the state attorney general ruled the measure invalid. But pensions would still cost $26 million for the next two years-as compared with...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
...After a brisk skirmish, confirmed Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark 73 to 8, unanimously approved the nomination of Senator J. Howard McGrath to succeed Clark as Attorney General...