Word: deweyitis
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...Hurdles: Dewey Hickman...
...days before his recent death, Thomas E. Dewey worked on an article for the next issue of the Columbia Law Review, which will be dedicated entirely to a man whom Dewey knew well. As Governor, he had appointed him to a vacancy on New York's highest court in 1946. Now, 25 years later, Dewey wrote: "Some lawyers become judges because they have worked hard enough and long enough in the political vineyard to persuade the dominant political party to nominate them. Some judges, like ambassadors, arrive at their destination by the route of heavy political contributions. Then there...
...proofreader, Fuld began polishing his unusual talent for legal clarity at Columbia Law School ('26), where he was an editor of the Law Review and earned his way by teaching at City College. In 1935, after nine years of general law practice in Wall Street, Fuld joined Tom Dewey, then a crime-busting special prosecutor, in his famous probe of New York City rackets. With his appetite for hard work (he still toils 14 hours a day), Fuld became the Dewey team's specialist in deflating the complex legal defenses raised by the underworld's lawyers...
...When Dewey became Manhattan's district attorney, Fuld headed his indictments bureau and soon became a leading criminal-law reformer. Appalled at the prolix, mumbo-jumbo language of indictments, he boiled the lengthy forms into two or three precise sentences. Fuld's forms are still in use throughout the state. By weeding out other legal technicalities, such as overly narrow categories of larceny, which left loopholes for the guilty, Fuld earned high praise from at least one leading judge, who wrote to urge his elevation to New York's top court. Governor Dewey soon obliged...
...only arrests during Dewey Canyon III came at the Supreme Court building, where some of the veterans went to ask for a ruling on the constitutionality of the war. Eleven were arrested after one sit-in, though they were quickly freed on $10 bail each. Another 108 were busted following two hours of singing and chanting on the steps of the Supreme Court building; the charges were soon dropped. Two demonstrators were spared arrest on orders from Washington Police Chief Jerry Wilson, who was on hand. Bill Wyman, 20, who lost both legs when he stepped on a land mine...