Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm in Los Angeles, thinks the situation is already at the danger point, and if a Democratic Congress is unleashed by a Democratic President, there will be a disaster. So does Nancy Brataas, a Rochester, Minn., housewife who started her own small firm for consultation on political volunteer programs. Lawyer Francis Love of Wheeling, W. Va., understood the need for massive Government action in the 1930s, but now he believes there is an equally compelling need for massive revision of the New Deal concept and programs that still dominate Washington...
Even if Yarbrough is disbarred, can he be kept off the bench? The state constitution requires only that a supreme court justice be 35 years old and have been a lawyer for ten years; it is mum on whether a justice must be an attorney when he takes his seat. Only the Texas supreme court itself can sort the matter out. Some Texas lawyers are hoping that the question will never arise. Efforts are under way to find a write-in candidate who can beat Yarbrough in the November election. It will be a long shot. A write...
...breeds governors in California. But in Texas, the game of political names calls for a Yarborough, a cognomen that has meant liberal votes in the Lone Star State for a generation. Ralph Yarborough, 73, was in the Senate from 1957 to 1971. Another Yarborough, Donald H., 50, a Houston lawyer and no relation, ran unsuccessfully three times for Governor and almost beat John Connally...
...important part in Abercrombie's genesis. David T. Abercrombie made camping goods in a small factory in Lower Manhattan and was content to sell to trappers, railroad surveyors, prospectors and others who worked out of doors. Then, in 1892, he met Ezra Fitch, a successful but bored lawyer. They became partners and built a store on Broadway where Fitch set out to sell Abercrombie's goods to the public in general and fat-cat sportsmen in particular. After many disagreements over just whom the store should be catering to-Abercrombie's trappers or Fitch's moneyed...
This investigation and the subsequent trial proceed without much suspense but with plenty of grimy authenticity. Higgins, himself a lawyer and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, has a feel for the greasy machinery of justice...