Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Recover From. "Jackson's trouble," says a sympathetic lawyer who has been in and out of the case, "is that he sat on his duff right up until the last minute. In his blustering frontier way, he didn't figure anything could happen to a guy of his wealth over so small a sum owed." Now, in all likelihood, there isn't anyone for him to recover from any more. Primock is dead, and Sears has already successfully contended that it did not know of or endorse any of Primock's actions. Besides, Jackson no longer...
...military tribunal rather than a civilian criminal court. His arrest brought immediate protests from the French Ambassador, screams from the French press, and a personal appeal from De Gaulle. The Human Rights Commissions of France, Italy and Belgium dispatched observers to plead his case. His father, who is a lawyer, his mother, who is a Paris city councilwoman, and his childhood nurse all flew to the Bolivian capital of La Paz to rescue their petit chou...
...they have accomplished little. Papa Debray, muttering comparisons to "the trial of Joan of Arc" and "the Dreyfus case," has only succeeded in firing his son's Bolivian lawyer. He has urged Regis to conduct his own defense-which Papa sees as "a dialogue between the philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims. She also threw her son a dialectical screwball by revealing that "it was very difficult for me to understand his book." Said...
...site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Quiet Sale. But without directly notifying Jackson, Sears's lawyer, Paul Primock, quietly got a court order for execution on the judgment. To satisfy the debt, the sheriff was directed by Primock to seize title to Jackson's property and sell it. The sale was just as quiet, and Paul Primock, ostensibly acting for Sears, was allowed to buy all of Jackson's buildings and acreage for $647.71. It was all done so discreetly that Jackson knew nothing about it until eleven months later, when he tried to borrow money and the loan company discovered that...