Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington had never seen anything quite like last week's hearing. It opened with the noisy appearance in a House caucus room of a young man named Jerry Clyde Rubin, who wore a Revolutionary War uniform and clutched 300 copies of the Declaration of Independence while his woman lawyer screamed, "The police are trying to take away my client's documents!" It never recovered from that tone-setter. From then until adjournment at week's end, the hearing was marked by insults to the committee, vain posturings, ejections by force, arrests and an often unholy din from...
...safety bill, similar to a measure approved earlier by the Senate, came almost as a relief to automakers, whose 1966 sales have been hurt by the bad publicity set off by the safety crusade of Lawyer-Writer Ralph Nader. Detroit's spokesman on safety, Ford Vice President John S. Bugas, watched the voting from the House gallery, called the bill "another move" that automakers could support. Even Nader was not entirely dissatisfied. Though he estimated that it will be 1973 before the bill's real impact will be felt, he allowed that the bill "enables us to begin...
...problems. In the primary text, The State Trial Judge's Book, a budding jurist is taught such crucial arts as how to determine whether evidence is relevant as well as admissible under the ever more complex rules of exclusion. As for deportment: "He should accept this change [from lawyer to judge] modestly, graciously and with dignity. He is not required to be a jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges old and new also study the ten judicial commandments composed by Chief Judge Edward J. Devitt of Minnesota's U.S. District Court, which...
...William Faulkner had made Gavin Stevens an artist instead of a lawyer, chances are the Mississippi novelist's folksy philosopher would have been just about the spitting image of Carroll Cloar. As it is, Cloar never made it into print, but with the retrospective of his works currently making the rounds of nine Southern cities, he has clearly added a colorful chapter of his own to the legendary South (see color page...
...Revolution proposes to attain exactly this. Sincercely yours, Carlos A. von der Heyda Lawyer...