Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of Ghana have been anywhere-even to school. They may not be aware of the hue and cry abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which are often not attained in your own countries...
...President Munro, lawyer and onetime newspaper editor who has served at the U.N. for the past five years, promised to gavel quickly for order, start the sessions on time, and get everybody home for Christmas. "I can see no reason at all," he said, "why we should not have a reasonably tranquil session." It was another matter how many problems the session would settle...
...citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish...
Bing, 48, is a stocky, Oxford-educated lawyer who made a name as one of Britain's most left-wing Laborite M.P.s after the war. But even before his Essex working-class constituents got fed up with his specious defenses of Communist grabs in Czechoslovakia and Korea and turned him out of office, Bing had begun commuting to West Africa to take profitable legal cases for several men later prominent in Ghana politics. By the time Ghana was set to go it alone, he was already established as an intimate adviser to Prime Minister Nkrumah, reportedly not only drafting...
...native New Yorker, "Whitey" Willauer began his career as an admiralty lawyer, then moved into Government service as an investigator. In World War II he directed U.S. aid to the Far East, after V-J day stayed on to organize CAT airline with General Claire Chennault. Squeezed out of control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving...