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Next day the lion's jaws closed. Frank E. Holman, 67, Seattle corporation lawyer and A.B.A. past president who gave Ohio's Senator John Bricker the idea for the amendment, stopped chain-smoking cigars long enough to take the floor in the three-hour debate in the house of delegates. Holman wasted little time on the specific points of the Dulles argument. His appeal was to a deep-seated legal concept: the force of precedent, stare decisis. If the house of delegates "turned turtle" now after twice backing the Bricker Amendment, warned Holman, the A.B.A. would lose...
...class of '42), World War II submarine officer and Boston lawyer, introduced a resolution calling for a referendum of all 50,000 A.B.A. members-in effect, a demand to see whether the membership would reverse the house of delegates. Striding down to a front-row mike, ex-President Holman angrily retorted: "You gentlemen just want to get your, names in the press." (Cried voices from the assembly floor: "Shame!") But a few minutes later, Lawyer Peabody walked into a parliamentary mousetrap set by Holman supporters, who substituted a resolution leaving it up to the house of delegates to decide...
Dangers of the Amendment. Alarmed at the prospect of reform-by-treaty, or revolution-by-treaty, a Seattle lawyer named Frank E. Holman, then president of the American Bar Association, set out five years ago on a crusade to save the Constitution by amending its treaty-power provisions. Among the allies he enlisted was Senator Bricker, who introduced his now-famed resolution in September 1951, and reintroduced it in the first days of the 83rd Congress...
...Loose Talk." To all the charges last week, Standard Oil of New Jersey's President Eugene Holman made a blanket denial. Said he: "We hope the investigation will, once and for all, put a stop to loose and irresponsible talk about this company's foreign business. We do not believe there is an international oil cartel-certainly we are not party...
Socony's President Brewster B. Jennings said that Socony's expansion into the Middle East came at the instigation of the U.S. Government or with its approval. Added Holman: "We have informed interested Government agencies, including the Department of Justice, of important steps as they have been taken...