Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
...exempt publications have won numerous influential friends. National Geographic, for example, has many VIPs on its board of trustees. "Generally," says former Commissioner Caplin, "such boards are window dressing." But, he adds, they serve to make Government investigators reviewing the tax status of such organizations "very cautious." Caplin, a lawyer who now represents the National Tax Equality Association, says that the investigators "are certainly not unaware of the line-up and the numbers of the players...
...more than anything else, we need people with ability working in the criminal system and doing research about crime. Great efforts are now under way to get more able lawyers into criminal practice. This is a hard and slow process because now the pay and prospects are poor, and since even the able defense lawyer is destined to lose most of his cases, deciding on such a career has similarity to being condemned to spend the rest of one's days with the Boston...
...good many Negroes in Birmingham, token integration of the police force simply had very little meaning. A lawyer who keeps in time with the grass-roots folks and frequently stops off at Ratkiller's on his way home from work remarked recently, "I see these Negro cops in there with whites. I doubt if any of them have any real authority to do anything...
...constantly in view ("They live out here," says an elderly housewife in one northside neighborhood) or that they try to enforce the white man's law ("There are too many instances where police here have been trying to teach manners instead of enforce the law," maintains one Negro lawyer). It is, as much as anything, that police behavior can be utterly capricious, that an officer can be brutal or civil, that it is impossible to predict which one he will be, that to his superiors, it is apparently all the same. In Birmingham, moreover, the predilection has too often been...