Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach Jack all he knew; to the vast annoyance of Jack's wife, he is still trying. For a time, Ben was, in his words, "a red-hot Socialist" who railed on street corners against the system that was crushing his father. Today, as a well-to-do lawyer, he is closer to Goldwater in his economic philosophy, has written a number of books with titles like Make Everybody Rich and Be a Capitalist or Be Damned...
...lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when he entered politics, is now worth roughly $1,000,000, earns $30,-000 a year as Senator and another $35,000, after taxes, from his Park Avenue law office...
...Prejudice. As Justice Clark saw it, Judge Blythin could easily have avoided the Sheppard trial's "carnival atmosphere" by sharply limiting the number of newsmen who crammed the courthouse and even freely handled trial exhibits. Most important, said Clark, Blythin "might well have proscribed extrajudicial statements by any lawyer, party, witness or court official"-thus cutting off prejudicial publicity at its main source and forcing newsmen to report the trial only "as it unfolded in the courtroom...
...represent the shareholders, a group headed by Manhattan Lawyer Benjamin Javits, 71, brother and former partner of U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, last week ran large ads in major newspapers, soliciting investors to send in 100 for each share of A.T. & T. that they own in order to create a war chest. Javits wants to induce the FCC to scrub its investigation in favor of a friendlier "roundtable conference," contends that the company is entitled to at least 8% on its investment. His slogan: "Owners of the world, unite...
Died. Wellington Rankin, 81, Montana lawyer-rancher and younger brother of Jeanette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (1917-19), who amassed one of the nation's biggest landholdings (900,000 acres of ranchland); following abdominal surgery; at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn...