Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump anyone but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors. -The Daily Kansan...
...Vetoed a bill which would have let a legislative committee continue its investigation of some nasty bridge-fund boodle. (Lawyer Boyles got the blame. Protested Mr. Dickinson to carpers: "Why, I didn't know that bill terminated the investigation. Judge Boyles told me to veto...
...West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded...
...change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line and the Cuban Government, of a growth of Cuban anti-Semitism due to the landing of 5,000 refugees in Havana during the past year. Lawyer Loewe slashed his wrists, leaped overboard. Another passenger took poison, was saved when crew members smashed in his stateroom door...
...have to take a back seat. It is as if Darryl F. Zanuck had signed Mr. Lincoln to play in a swift, humorous, bathetic little piece of last century fiction. The result is an ingenuous jumble of history and fancy, its main theme being the story of how young Lawyer Lincoln, at 30, won his famous murder case with the help of the moon and a farmer's almanac, a trial that actually took place when Lincoln was nearing...