Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised, Giscard brought a woman into his Cabinet. Simone Veil, 46, a prominent Paris jurist, was named Minister of Health. Three posts went to members of Giscard's small Independent Republican Party. No fewer than eight posts went either to nonpolitical civil servants or to leaders of the small center parties that made indispensable contributions to Giscard's wafer-thin margin of victory. One of them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic...
Scarcely seven pages into this autobiography, a reader wonders briefly why William Orville Douglas cannot leave well enough alone. He has just related his Republican mother's belief that "if the rich are disenchanted, then we are all unemployed." Immediately the distinguished jurist adds, "Even at the age of 14, I did not buy that theory." He seems compelled to explain that he leaped practically from the womb as a full-blown liberal and has never since been sullied by the errors of complacent conservatism. And as he inveighs his way along the road of life-chumming up with...
...decades after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional, the race problem has shifted from a question of dual school systems to one of "dual cities," a leading jurist told a crowd of 150 at the Law School last night...
...there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest jurist to rule on the matter. "There are no unmanageable cases," he said. "There are only lazy judges." This week Lord will okay the last major settlement for American consumers. So far, the cases figure to cost the companies a total of $175 million in damages...
...York Daily Compass ran out of money. During Joe McCarthy's heyday, no one was hiring left-wing journalists. And by that time, Stone's leftist reputation was well-known; he was barred (and he still is) from the National Press Club in Washington for inviting a black jurist to lunch there once in the forties...