Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolid, dour lawyer, Adams reversed tradition by beginning as a moderate and moving to the left. On coming home from Oxford in 1925, he won his first seat in the legislature through the influence of a planter. But he was soon attacking the "dictatorship" of the landowners, and when Depression-struck sugar workers rioted in 1937, Adams was blamed by the governor for inciting the violence...
Profit Sharing. To clean up the bitter memories and the vast destruction left by Allied bombers, the government named Engineer-Lawyer Pierre Lefaucheux as boss. He refused to accept state subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 39, Broadway librettist (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) ; and Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, Parisian lawyer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...House Ways and Means Committee, which shapes the nation's tax legislation. The move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still it was a reward that no colleague could deny Wilbur Mills. In 19 years as a Congressman, Lawyer Mills thoroughly studied his economics, got a reputation as a spokesman for low-income groups and small business, yet is a model of prudence with his constituents' tax dollar...
Died. Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, 86, lawyer, longtime (1911-13, 1915-33) Republican Congressman from Missouri; in St. Louis. An ardent fighter against Prohibition during the '20s, "Lee" Dyer authored (in 1919) the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act which made interstate traffic in stolen autos a federal offense...