Word: keefe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town in the foothills of the Great Smokies. Aside from Depression stringencies, father Robert Cooke Kefauver was comfortably fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through one summer in a Harlan County (Ky.) coal mine. There he lived in a sweaty attic with four other miners and developed a real sympathy for coal miners and unions...
...Country Boy. He graduated, from Yale Law School in 1927, and was a good lawyer right from the beginning. He turned out to have a special way with juries that brought him a bid from the topflight Chattanooga law firm of Sizer and Chambliss. "Keef handled a jury like a country boy," said one of his ex-partners recently. "He would establish himself as a country boy, then recite the facts and lead the jury along. He used language the jurors could understand. He never tried to be eloquent or quoted poetry...
...blind date one night in 1934 Keef met Nancy Piggott, a lively redhead who was visiting her well-to-do aunt in Chattanooga. Nancy was an American girl born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her U.S.-born father, Stephen Piggott, was a designer of marine engines for a Scottish firm, became a British subject and was subsequently knighted. Keef followed Nancy home to Scotland, and married her there. Back in Chattanooga, Keef's new wife-witty, wise and devoted-was a great social asset to a close-mouthed young lawyer. They were a popular couple. In 1937 the Chattanooga Junior Chamber...