Word: disbarment
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...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...
...Staunton News Leader bought it, and on Feb. 4 printed the article, ran an approving editorial. Said the News Leader: "It is plainly the duty of Mrs. Carter Glass to make it clear to her husband that his age and physical condition disbar him from further duty in the Senate and to prevail on him to tender his resignation. ... It is imperative that another Virginian . . . willing to fight against the march of radical forces ... be sent to Washington immediately...
...hearing in which the State Bar Association tried unsuccessfully to disbar Aurelio, the full story came out. Cocky Racketeer Costello conceded that he had been a bootlegger, rumrunner, slot-machine magnate, betting commissioner, had spent ten months in the workhouse for illegal possession of a gun, had paid no income taxes on his lush rakeoffs for 13 years. He knew almost every big-name gangster of recent history: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, "Trigger Mike" Cappola. But he added: "I had bundles of real important friends of mine...
...simplify labor relations: unions would have to tell their troubles to WLB, NLRB and Labor-Secretary Frances Perkins. It might wreck WLB: a section provided that no member of WLB shall have "a direct interest as an officer, employe or representative of either party to the dispute." Would this disbar WLB's four labor members, who are members of A.F. of L. and C.I.O...
However, despite Government pressure and the urging of a small group of gentile lawyers, the Rumanian bar association valiantly rejected a motion to disbar all Jewish lawyers in Rumania...