Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
...surely was a little tough on Hitler," sarcastically interrupted Toffi's lawyer. "Oh, I'm not sorry," rumbled Rothermere, "Hitler richly deserved...
Delivery-Boys. For this victory Franklin Roosevelt could thank many a man, but particularly two-Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina in the Senate, Lindsay Carter Warren of North Carolina in the House. Powerful Mr. Warren, a bull-built, blunt, 49-year-old country lawyer with a fine stand of black hair, may one day be Speaker of the House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South...
When the New Deal took over Washington, the great limestone & marble building which now houses the Post Office Department was nearing completion. Its architects wanted its walls decorated with the usual classical allegory. A special adviser to the State and Treasury Departments named Edward Bruce objected. A capable Manhattan lawyer who retired in 1922 to become a capable artist, he stormed: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building...
...other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic...