Word: lawyered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Standing before the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, Lawyer Richard C. Butler, counsel for Little Rock's board of education, tried hard to make clear the board's plea for a postponement of integration at Little Rock's Central High School. The board, Butler said, was "placed between the millstones [of] two sovereignties"-the Federal Government and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. If law and order had broken down in Little Rock, Butler submitted, that was not the fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board...
...Governor Lindsay Almond, highly skilled lawyer and vote-getting politician, the conflict between republican law and regional politics as dictated by prejudice comes to bear in a microcosm. Almond is a true son of the Virginia that gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the bone, blood and brain of the republic. He is equally a son of the Virginia that gave to the Confederacy its crimson fields, its grey-clad men, and above all its leaders, who should have known better...
...mountain forests. As the attorney general who argued Virginia's school cases before the Supreme Court, Lindsay Almond is one of segregation's ablest legal advocates. "Don't you kid yourself," says a longtime Almond adversary, N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall. "He is a good lawyer." Precisely because he is a good lawyer, Lindsay Almond understands that Virginia, in its "massive resistance" delaying tactics, is merely living from stay to stay. Sighed the Governor last week, "We might have to take it between the eyes...
Millionaire Byrd* knew hard times as a youth; plain-born Lawyer-Politician Almond is far from wealthy). Almond has described the organization as well as anyone: "It's like a club, except it has no bylaws, constitution or dues. It's a loosely knit association, you might say, between men who share the philosophy of Senator Byrd." Almond need only have added what he himself learned the hard way: that those who deviate from the Byrd philosophy soon cease to be gentlemen by organization standards...
Files and folders tucked in his arm, Detroit Labor Lawyer George S. (for Stephen) Fitzgerald, 56, strolled into the McClellan committee's high-ceilinged hearing room last week, as he has most days since the committee began to grill Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa and half a dozen Fitzgerald-represented Hoffa lieutenants. But this time the beet-faced, bulge-bellied barrister plopped himself not in the customary attorney's seat but in the red-leathered witness chair. For two days Witness Fitzgerald (without counsel) angrily denied that he had been furtive or unethical in carrying out sometimes strange...