Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin-skinned Lawyer Scott, able Catholic layman, good friend of Herbert Hoover, be less umbrageous. No insult to Catholics was intended by a good old English term...
Right down the middle went the third, Hester. She married and divorced Ellery C. Huntington Jr., All-America (Colgate) football star and Wall Street lawyer, married and divorced Sculptor Oscar Fulton Davisson Jr. Among such liberal minds as inhabited conservative New Canaan, Conn., Hester was in the forefront. Still within the pale, still listed in the Social Register, Hester was not Red, but a delicate pinko...
Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a precise Baltimore bachelor, an alumnus of Johns Hopkins. He stuttered terribly but never let that bother him. As a Maryland gourmet, he was famed for his perfect dinner parties. As a Maryland lawyer, he specialized in wills. Last September Alfred Shriver died, aged 72, leaving a will that was something...
...National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Less than $500,000,000 was actually spent...
Friends here notified Wheeler's nearest relative in this country, his uncle, George Kurzman, a New York lawyer. His mother, Mrs. George Turner, lives abroad in Paris. His father was killed in an automobile accident in Germany eight years...