Word: lawyer
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...might be expected of the man who has the responsibility for formulating domestic and international financial and tax policies, managing the public debt and supervising the Treasury's major law enforcement arms, including the Secret Service. But he delegates wisely; he recruited Robert Carswell, 49, a Wall Street lawyer, as Deputy Secretary to handle the Treasury's 126,344-employee bureaucracy, and assigned Anthony Solomon, 58, an economist and State Department veteran, as Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, to run daily international operations. That leaves Blumenthal free to concentrate on the big-bang issues of inflation, taxes...
Webster was chosen from an original list of 117 prospects that was narrowed down to two after Bell consulted with lawyers, judges and law-enforcement officials. He and the other finalist, Federal Judge Frank McGarr of Chicago, met with Carter last week. Bell noted that both are Republicans; the Administration has been under heavy fire lately for partisanship in its appointments of federal judges and prosecutors. Bell suggested that Carter's decision might have turned on a simple affinity of temperament. "McGarr is a trial lawyer and has a more dominant personality," said the Attorney General. "Webster is given...
This year much of what Carter gets from Congress will be largely due to Byrd, a night-school lawyer who is a first-rate legislative technician. His job is to act as the Senate's traffic cop, controlling the flow of legislation and debate. A master of the Senate's rules and precedents, Byrd hustles through an endless round of meetings with committee chairmen, powerful Senate barons and rebellious mavericks, trying to head off trouble. He pleads with recalcitrant Senators for support, does favors to pacify them, like scheduling their pet bills, or tries to put off action on controversial...
Bell says that he decided early on that Marston, who had been an aide to Republican Senator Richard Schweiker with no prosecutorial experience to speak of, should be replaced. But lawyer friends of Bell in Philadelphia argued that he should be retained for a year since he had some major corruption investigations under way and his removal would smack of an attempt to take the heat off errant Democratic officeholders. In short, the timing was all wrong...
DIED. Samuel Simon Leibowitz, 84, theatrical, quick-tongued lawyer who won the release of the "Scottsboro Boys," nine black Alabama youths convicted of raping two white women; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. The Rumanian-born lawyer won a reputation during the Prohibition era for his brilliant defense of such notorious criminals as Al Capone, the Mad Dog Killer, and the Bread Knife Murderess-he saved all but one of his 100 or so murder defendants from the electric chair. In 1933 Leibowitz, serving without a fee, took on the Scottsboro Boys, eight of whom had been sentenced to death. After...