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...brevet jurists was proposed last year by the American Board of Trial Advocates, an association of Western lawyers. Francis McCarty, presiding judge of the county's superior court, decided to use the volunteers as replacements for absent judges. Trial lawyers willing to accept the arrangement select the temporary judge they want in a given case, as they might pick an arbitrator. Though six replacements tried only one case each this summer, litigants who had anticipated delays settled more than 30 recent cases out of court rather than face the immediate trials made possible by the presence of judges...
...first major mistake in the career of George Armstrong Custer was his promotion to major-general during the Civil War: he flailed through Virginia with a cavalryman's flair that killed as many of his own men as those of the Rebels. After the war, as a brevet brigadier. Custer was assigned to Indian Territory and left part of his troop to canter back to his wife for "home leave." Two of his men were slaughtered en route. His final error occurred on the Little Big Horn, when Custer led more than 200 men to their deaths...
...genetic magic, the Adamses never produced black sheep, though there were times when the family anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. Since no other Adams had ever been a soldier, Charles Francis Sr., Lincoln's Minister to the Court of St. James's, concluded that there was a defect in his son's character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles did not immerse...
...absence from Washington, Johnson has increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President. McNamara fills the part so well that the pundits last week were speculating that Johnson might put McNamara in some other strategic post, perhaps the unfilled job as Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development as a base from which to organize and oversee the Great Society's vast new domestic programs...
...became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life, she coldly countered by charging in print, naming all names, that the country...