Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it plain that it was all a matter of passion rather than propaganda, and that she was more to be pitied than censured. When her attorney asked her in courtly tones if she had ever "intended to adhere to the enemy," she replied throatily: "Anyone who knows me knows it isn't true...
Teacher. In Providence, John A. Quigley's nine-month term in jail for drunken driving was reduced to three months when a prominent attorney testified: "He's the fellow who showed me how to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous...
Through Washington and world politics last week, Dean Acheson gracefully picked his way, reminding a British journalist of a Velasquez grandee-tall and thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
...Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist front or Communist organizations" to which Dr. Shipler lent his name between 1939 and 1949. Nine of them, says Birkhead, are listed by the Attorney General as "Communist...
...expenses while away. He wrote Standard: "I was really doing more work ... for the Standard Oil Co. than if I had remained in the office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza." In another letter, he took credit for the quashing of antitrust indictments in 1934 against Standard of California. Excerpt: "The Attorney General . . . took me into an outer room and said: 'Jimmy, I have dismissed the indictments against your boy friends on the Pacific Coast...