Word: disbarments
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Smith said that he often received letters asking why he didn't disbar Richard Nixon. He replied, "Every once in a while I'd like to write 'em back and say 'I think I will...
Approve or disapprove the comic Academy Awards, it is still necessary to remember that the award given to Mike Nichols was not given for being born in America, does not disbar former nightclub comedians, and has nothing to do with the shape of a man's face. Lillian Hellman
...Corn's evidence, the State Supreme Court last December voted to disbar Justice Welch. It was a meaningless gesture since the court had previously held that a lawyer leaves the bar when he ascends the bench-an opinion that was written by Welch himself. If they are convicted on the bribery charges, however, Welch and Johnson face maximum sentences of ten years' imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. For allegedly lying about his part in the conspiracy, a federal grand jury has also slapped a perjury indictment against Lawyer Otto A. Cargill, 80, former mayor of Oklahoma City...
...famous citizens as baseball's Hank Greenberg, Mrs. Aristotle ("Tina") Onassis and TV's John Daly (so he could marry the daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren). Some quickie lawyers raked in as much as $200,000 a year. In 1961 the Alabama Bar Association threatened to disbar lawyers knowingly involved in phony quickies. That cut the Alabama divorce rate by almost one-third, but quickie business persisted, notably in the town of Geneva (pop. 3,840), seat of a Florida-border county that in 1962-63 granted more than 2,500 divorces, including Mrs. Wolfs...
...Urged Attorney General Herbert Brownell and state authorities to disbar any lawyer who is "presently a Communist," or who abuses his professional trust by willfully obstructive tactics in the Communist cause. Two days later, the assembly applauded Brownell's announcement that he had ordered the National Lawyers Guild to "show cause" why it should not be put on his subversive list...