Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overwhelming. In swings to Manchester, N.H., Washington, B.C., Atlanta, and Charleston, W. Va., the nominee shored up his liberal credentials (actually, he prefers to call them populist), attacked the Republicans as corrupt, incompetent and insensitive, and referred to the "Nixon-Ford Administration." He evoked applause from an American Bar Association audience when he vowed "to take a new broom to Washington and do everything possible to sweep the house of Government clean...
...first time in its modern history, the 207,000-member American Bar Association last week had a genuine presidential election contest. Well, maybe not a contest, but at least there were two candidates...
...year the quasi-official nominee was William B. Spann Jr., 64, an Atlanta attorney who has been active in the A.B.A. for four decades. But Spann's relatively liberal inclinations distressed Houston Corporate Lawyer Leroy Jeffers, 66, a partner of John Connally, a former president of the Texas bar and, most important, a two-fisted conservative who believes the A.B.A. has plunged foolishly into broad national legal issues instead of sticking to one down-home essential: the problem of how lawyers practice law. So Jeffers became the first opposition candidate to get on the ballot, by petition...
...vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A. onto a moderately activist course may have slowed to a torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion as not "germane." Despite a pending federal antitrust suit against the A.B.A.'s strict limits on lawyer advertising, conventioneers were in no mood to go beyond the modest liberalizing...
...setting might be a farm or private house, a tourist hotel or a bar in Salisbury, the speaker might be male or female; the accent anything from upper class British to cockney to Greek. Various illustrations were used, though the Kaffir who, with a modern kitchen, nevertheless made a cooking fire on the floor recurred frequently. But the import was always the same, and the speaker white...