Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shadow. But the wheels of propaganda were beginning to buzz in their various ways last week as two novelists and a Scottish lawyer fought to reach the eyes and ears of the world with the best cases they could make for the conduct of their warring countries. One novelist was Paul Joseph Goebbels, author (at 24) of Michael, probably as bad a book as has ever been published, and operator (at 41) of the most powerful, most smoothly organized publicity machine the world has ever seen...
...because of its past pluperfect grade performance and present eccentricity, most interest centred last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news...
...Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot Macmillan was a congenital committee chairman: of committees investigating lunacy and mental disorders, street offenses, the coal dispute, the wage dispute in the wool industry, income-tax revision-plodding jobs that...
Sworn in as Finance Minister, to take the lead out of Canada's pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
...some eight years ago, University of Colorado's grand old man and president, George Norlin, argued long and earnestly with a friend in Denver, a 38-year-old corporation lawyer named Robert Lawrence Stearns. Dr. Norlin was trying to persuade his friend to come to his university as dean of its law school. Conservative Mr. Stearns, who had already made his mark in 17th Street, Denver's financial centre, was hard to persuade. At length Dr. Norlin exclaimed: "Better men than you have taken the vow of academic poverty!" Like many a better man before him, Mr. Stearns...