Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiles, Lawyer Stevenson made no measurable progress in the mission that took him behind the Iron Curtain: trying to persuade Soviet officialdom to pay author's royalties to Stevenson clients (including Pearl Buck, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, Upton Sinclair) whose works are published in the Soviet Union. Said Stevenson wanly before heading for Warsaw and points west: "The Minister of Culture is studying the matter further...
...Teamster Vice President Owen B. Brennan, kept the records. Called to the witness chair, Brennan avoided Hoffa's testimony, refusing to testify for fear of selfincrimination. Growled Chairman McClellan: "Is the taking of the Fifth Amendment one of the prerequisite qualifications for advancement [in the Teamsters]?" On his lawyer's signal, Brennan took the Fifth again...
...when a grand jury indicted Treloar for manslaughter, white citizens in the county seat of Water Valley moved fast. Remembering the "bad publicity" of the Emmett Till case three years before in neighboring Tallahatchie County (TIME, Oct. 3, 1955), they dissuaded Water Valley Negroes from hiring an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, instead chipped in for a white attorney to act as the district attorney's special prosecutor...
...Lawyer Merwin comes from one of the four so-called "royal families" of St. Croix, largest of the islands. His great-greatgrandfather on the maternal side migrated from Ireland in the early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics...
...then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from strength or weakness." As you can see, she does everything from weakness; and one wonders how she ever managed to get Gordon Smith to the altar and keep him from engaging a divorce lawyer...