Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paperman, seated near by at the hearings: "After all, I am not a bookkeeper. She is." (At one point, after Goldfine had repeatedly told the subcommittee that Miss Paperman could supply some of the answers it wanted, Miss Paperman indeed tried to pipe up with the answers. And Goldfine Lawyer Robert Robb distinctly admonished her: "Keep quiet, keep quiet, keep quiet...
...first page of the statement read last week by Bernard Goldfine to the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight were the encouraging words "YOU WILL BE GREAT!!" Author of the inspirational message: Manhattan Pressagent (and TV Performer) John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr. Coauthor: Washington Lawyer Roger Robb If nothing else, the words reminded Goldfine that he had behind him one of the gaudiest retinues of lawyers and flacks in the whole history of congressional investigations. This is how the retinue operated - and what it did for and to Bernard Goldfine...
Opposition Candidate Luis Héctor Alvarez of the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.) has campaigned earnestly for cleaner government-and got nowhere. He has been heckled in the hinterlands and relegated to newspaper back pages. As for the Communist Party candidate, an ancient lawyer named Miguel Mendoza López, few Mexicans even knew where he was last week. The campaign has been historically quiet; only one P.A.N. worker has been killed...
...prison for failing to register as a Dominican agent (he has appealed). Schmahl took the Fifth Amendment before a federal grand jury. Trujillo has refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...
...current king of the proxy fighters is a tough-talking, dapper Washington lawyer named Alfons Landa, who admits that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein, 54, from the sick Penn-Texas Corp., taking over as president at $36,000 a year. (Silberstein will collect $40,000 a year for five years as an "adviser.") Landa got into the fight nearly two years ago when Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse decided to back him financially...