Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years Attorney General Tom Clark had given the party on Harry Truman's birthday. This was the biggest one of all. Court Jester George Allen, deep in the Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays...
Lawyer Clay, who retired four years ago to his Kentucky farm, worked hard to keep the case alive. He needled federal officials unmercifully, got newspaper backing, claimed that the investigation was not being pressed. During the turmoil, U.S. Attorney Claude Stephens filed a $50,000 libel suit against him, for charging the U.S. Attorney's office with "incompetence or worse...
...author of many books and magazine articles, Powell also served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1936 and served on the President's Emergency Board on the National Railway Strike...
...similar battle occurred in February, 1948, when former Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes proposed a similar bill. At that time President Conant and administrative leaders from other Massachusetts colleges flocked to the public hearings to register their opposition to the bill...
...Klondike and finally to California, where the family decided to settle down. His school years were a running revolt against teachers and formal education, but he did get through high school. He tried boxing, took some thorough beatings, decided to read for the law after a deputy district attorney bawled him out for taking part in an unlicensed fight. One day when he was 21, he showed up with two black eyes to take his bar exam, passed it and hung out his shingle...