Word: clerkes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WARREN E. BURGER, 66, a Republican appointed by Nixon in 1969, believes so strongly in public figures' right to confidentiality that he has often said that "interviewing a judge's clerk is like bugging his phone." Thinks that many newsmen are biased against him personally and against Republicans in general. As an Assistant Attorney General in 1953, argued that the Supreme Court had no authority to review the President's hiring...
...Washington tended to forget how much you can accomplish at the local level," says the Minneapolis-born, Harvard-educated Edelman, who has launched university courses for prison inmates and other nontraditional students. Like his wife Marian, he is a supporter of children's rights. A onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Edelman worked for Common Cause before he went to UMass...
Harold Greenwood, 42, was an ex-policeman and college dropout when he became a clerk at a modest Minneapolis savings and loan company in 1955. Today the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association has assets of $1.1 billion, and Greenwood is its president. An energetic proponent of inner-city rehabilitation, he co-authored part of the 1968 Federal Housing Act; this year he is increasing the proportion of his firm's inner-city lending from 17% to 41%. He has given 20% of his officer and supervisor jobs to women. Greenwood regards inaction on critical issues by both...
...ranking experts in criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs of any kind. "After the revolution," he says jokingly, "I will be representing the capitalists...
James R. Thompson Jr., 38, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has done more to dismantle Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's political machine than all his predecessors combined. In less than three years he has convicted former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett, three aldermen, two police captains and more than a dozen other state and local officials, most of them Democrats. A strapping (6 ft. 6 in.) Chicago native and ex-law professor who describes himself as a "middle-of-the-road" Republican, "Big Jim" Thompson is the favorite choice of Cook County...