Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power movement and racial violence in the slums. Senate Mi nority Leader Everett Dirksen, predicting that Marshall will be confirmed without difficulty, noted: "He's a good lawyer. The fact of his color should make no difference...
...northeast of Detroit, the Democrats nominated Insurance Salesman Victor Steeh, 44, who had represented the area previously, and got every big Democratic name in the state to campaign for him. The stakes for the Republicans, and particularly Romney, were just as high. To support the relatively green G.O.P. candidate, Lawyer David Serotkin, 28, Romney again led a clutch of party personalities to the stump...
...enough. The experienced defense lawyer was Hugh Cunningham, law partner of ex-Governor Ross Barnett and high among those who sprang Byron De La Beckwith, the accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers. Under Cunningham's skilled guidance, one by one the eight defendants told the all-white jury that either they were somewhere else during the riot or, if they were present, "I never hit nobody." A parade of character witnesses, including a local judge, warmly vouched for the defendants' reputations for truth. Lawyer Cunningham then attacked Police Captain Turner's credibility by producing other character...
Financial Juggles. The son of a successful lawyer, Abs forsook law studies at Bonn University to learn banking in Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, London and New York. At 36, his grasp of international finance led to his appointment as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department. Though inevitably involved in the financial juggles of the Hitler regime, Abs did not join the Nazi Party and at the end of World War II quietly retired to his Rhineland estate. Tapped in 1948 to run the agency that distributed Marshall Plan credit to German industry, Abs soon became a close adviser...
Died. John F. Finerty, 82, acerbic trial lawyer who defended many unpopular causes, in the 1920s fought for the release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...