Word: attorneys
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Political Assets. In Frankfort, Ky., after winning the Republican primary for state attorney general, Samuel S. Cannon reported his campaign costs: $2 for a photograph, 50? for stamps...
...records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General to initiate suits to protect civil rights, including the right to attend integrated schools. Also dropped was a section empowering the Federal Government to aid local school authorities with desegregation problems-a section that would have given specific congressional endorsement to the Supreme Court's basic 1954 school-integration...
Doubtful about taking on Attorney Anthony's offer in Honolulu, Quinn discussed it with an old St. Louis friend, Bill James. Remarking on the possibilities in growing Hawaii, James said prophetically: "If you go, you'll be Governor in ten years." The Quinns, by then parents of two children, talked it over. Says Bill: "That Boston weather was wet that winter, and the kids' snow suits wouldn't get dry, and Nancy wasn't feeling very well-so she said, 'Lord...
True enough, said Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, leading off for the government, the Devlin commission had found no reliable evidence that a "massacre" was about to take place. But then, said the Attorney General, the Colonial Secretary, in explaining to the House what had gone on in Nyasaland, had used the word "massacre" only once. "Apparently," snorted Labor's Colonial Expert James Callaghan, "if the Right Honorable Gentleman says it once, we are not to take him seriously...
...week's end Assistant New York District Attorney James V. Hallisey flew to Rio to test whether Lowell Birrell would come back willingly to stand trial. If Birrell has a change of heart, the Brazilian government, despite the lack of an extradition treaty with the U.S., can probably find ample cause to put him on a New York-bound plane...