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...lawyer, Powell has been a partner for 34 years in Virginia's biggest and most powerful firm, Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson. In time, his courtly ways combined with his talent for organization to make him a power in the profession: president of the American Bar Association (1964-65), president of the American College of Trial Lawyers (1969-70), president of the American Bar Foundation (1969-71). As head of the A.B.A., he was credited with efforts to speed courtroom procedures and to provide legal aid to the needy. All in all, says Professor Jon R. Waltz of Northwestern, Powell...
...another tough week for the trustees of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund. In Washington, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed refused bail to Trustees Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett and W. Alphaeus Hunton while they appealed from convictions for contempt of court. Justice Reed went a step further. He ruled that the U.S. has a perfect right to slap them behind bars for refusing to tell where they got about $450,000 which has been posted as bail for Commies in the past three years...
...Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey...
...murderer. A young practitioner, he had married the niece of rich old Thomas H. Swope of Kansas City, who lived in a large country place near Independence. In October 1909 Dr. Hyde was called to Independence to care for another of his wife's uncles, old James Moss Hunton who was down with apoplexy. Dr. Hyde took two quarts of blood out of Uncle Moss and the patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle Tom complained of a stomach ache. Dr. Hyde gave him a capsule and he, too, promptly died. On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Hyde was in Independence...
...father, who managed to enjoy life by running up bills, keeping a mistress, being popular with a large acquaintance. Mr. Douglass was fond of his children too, but failed to keep a weather eye on them. He never knew Catherine had become the mistress of egotistic young Gilbert Hunton. The Douglasses had no money, so when Gilbert thought of settling down he never considered Catherine as a potential spouse, instead got himself engaged to a rich little respectable hellcat. Catherine was heartbroken but hopeful, went to a fortune-teller to mend matters. Before she knew it Catherine had her faithless...