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Hanrahan was offered a circuit court judgeship as a consolation prize, but he turned it down. He said he would prefer to serve on the Illinois appellate court. That seemed to be asking a bit much for a man currently under indictment, so Daley demurred. Hanrahan marched before television cameras and announced that he would not withdraw from the race for state's attorney. Said he: "That would be the Black Panthers' biggest campaign propaganda victory...
SYLVIA BACON, 40. As a Justice Department aide, she helped draft the District of Columbia's controversial no-knock crime bill. Miss Bacon was appointed to her first judgeship seven months ago, and now serves on the D.C. superior court. She is a graduate of Vassar and Harvard Law School. Associates say that she is independent and capable of defining a problem in "very precise terms." Despite her conservatism, she served under Ramsey Clark and helped draft legislation for court reform in the District of Columbia...
...Alabama's Greene County, where the per capita income is less than $1,000 a year, became the nation's first county to be completely governed by blacks. They now fill all 14 local elective offices, including the county commission, school board, the probate judgeship and the sheriff's office-the key political job in much of the rural South. Having narrowly defeated the white incumbent, Big Bill Lee, whose family had held the job for 47 years, Thomas Earl Gilmore, 31, a minister, will be the new sheriff...
Williams then appointed her to a judgeship in Detroit. In 1954 she ran again for Congress and earned a measure of masculine appreciation by daily driving a car and campaign trailer through her predominantly blue-collar district on Detroit's northwest side. She won, despite primary opposition from the United Auto Workers union. Candidate Griffiths was helped by her husband, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, and by Williams. "Soapy and I were the happy extra-verts and ran around shaking hands," she recalls. "But my husband knew how to get things done...
...brave young prosecutor, whose real-life name is Christos Sartzetakis, had been elevated to a judgeship because of his work in the case. In 1968, the colonels dismissed him from the bench, along with 29 other judges, for "political bias and failure to uphold the prestige of the judiciary." When Lambrakis was killed in Salonica, another deputy, George Tsarouhas, was brutally beaten. In 1968, Tsarouhas was arrested by the junta for subversive activities. On the way to police headquarters in Salonica, he died. According to the official police report, he had suffered a "heart attack...