Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upset citywide election, with labor domination the issue, Minneapolitans clobbered Incumbent Mayor (since 1948) Eric Hoyer, 59, a C.L.U. stalwart and onetime house painter, handed a solid 6,000-vote majority to his opponent, Conservative Republican Lawyer P. Kenneth Peterson, 42. Some other C.L.U.-endorsed candidates fared as badly: three lost aldermanic races to independent liberals, and, more surprising, labor's representation on the school board was cut from five...
...Government lawyers after they studied the decision had an even sounder ground for bewilderment: in taking jurisdiction away from military courts, the Supreme Court provided no substitute. If military courts cannot try such civilians as Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith, who can? Clearly, no U.S. civilian court now has venue in such overseas cases. -Should Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith-and others like them-be turned over to the countries in which they committed their crimes? That answer would raise such a row as to make the noisy case of Specialist William Girardt seem a quiet thing indeed...
Personality & Private Life: Sternly handsome, imposing in stature, personally charming, with pale blue eyes and a face that cartoonists can catch in a few lines. Approaches tasks with fierce vigor. Wears country lawyer suits, prefers milk to martinis. After death of first wife in 1951. married attractive, capable Olive Freeman Palmer. A thunderous, fire-snorting orator, during the campaign he spoke with evangelistic fervor even when there were no more than a dozen people listening. Major interests: work, an occasional fishing trip alone, and the Baptist Church, in which he is a leading layman...
Backed by the American Jewish Congress and the New York Board of Rabbis, some citizens denounced the whole idea as a violation of the separation of church and state. Others maintained that the interdenominational version was really a "new religion" and hence offensive to all faiths. One lawyer argued that the proposal was a plot to 1) introduce religion into the public schools, 2) equate them with parochial schools, 3) thus open the door to public support for private schools. Finally the case reached the office of New York's State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen...
Next day, with a lawyer on hand to advise them, the Mamatola elders held a brief council meeting and told the government men firmly: "We won't go." But their victory, if such it was, was certain to be short-lived. "The transfer of the tribe to Metz," said an official announcement from the government at Pretoria that night, "has been abandoned for the time being, but we are determined to move the Mamatola out in the shortest possible time...