Word: client
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rather Be In Jail." Around Pleasanton, Kans. (pop. 1,200), Hall's father was regarded as a fine lawyer but a hard man who once exacted as his fee in a homicide case his acquitted client's whole 600-acre farm. Carl Austin Hall had a mentally deficient older brother who died at five in a mental institution, sent there because "the folks didn't want Carl brought up around him." But as a boy, Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money...
...door. But the television repairman gets a personal invitation, five or six times every year, to step right into the U.S. living room. For the 50,000 TV repairmen who keep America's 27,150,511 television sets in tune, every call is a challenge to keep the client content and the repairman's honor bright. When special problems arise, solutions can be found in the TV Technician's Handbook on Customer Relations...
...Client. Mann grew up in a puritanical Massachusetts family. Until he was 16, he never attended school more than eight or ten weeks of any year; he was 20 before he began to prepare for college. Nevertheless, he sailed through Brown with high honors, settled down to practice law in Dedham. Mass. This led him to the legislature, where he championed a bill to establish a state board of education. When the bill became law in 1837, he left politics and a profitable legal practice to take the $1,500-a-year job as secretary of the new board, aphorizing...
...persons accused of being Communists, and racketeers. The house of delegates reminded the nation that 1) every defendant has a right to counsel, and every lawyer has a duty to give counsel "even to the most unpopular" defendant; 2) such representation does not mean that the lawyer shares his client's "views or character...
Justice Is Done. In Dallas, a few days after obtaining the release of Dewey Leon Hipp, jailed for drunkenness, Attorney Abe Byers asked police to rearrest his client, angrily explained: "He gave me a hot check...