Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Congress in recess, among the few items of business to cross the President's desk were the resignations of Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry and Assistant HEW Secretary Francis Keppel. Memphis Lawyer Henry, who as FCC chief since 1963 has stung A. T. & T. with a still-in-progress study of its rate setup but soft-pedaled his predecessors' criticism of the TV industry, is anxious to return to private practice. In three years at HEW, Keppel made its Office of Education the nation's most innovative force in public education (TIME cover...
...Negro defendants hire Negro lawyers? One reason is that there are so few in the South. Of some 21,000 lawyers in Mississippi, only five are Negroes. Even relatively enlightened North Carolina has only 125 Negro lawyers in a Negro population of 1,500,000. The Negro lawyer is barred from judgeships, professorships, political appointments, big corporate firms and affluent clients. Even injured Negroes usually prefer white lawyers because they get more money from white juries. As a result, most important rights cases are directed by non-Southern lawyers, who for all their frequent zeal and skill, are often unfamiliar...
...Ever since he was a Manhattan lawyer before World War II, the senior U.S. Senator from New York has been interested in Latin America. What makes Republican Jacob Javits' thoughts especially worthwhile is that they often coincide with the private views of the White House. Thus last week, as the New York Republican ended a swing through Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, Government and business leaders listened attentively to his ideas...
...outside in a car crammed with sugar. After plumbing assorted precedents, the students informed the defender that the agents indeed had "probable cause" for the warrantless invasion: the mash smell was detected by their own trained noses. Such experiences have persuaded Gabriel to become a prosecutor, Shapiro a criminal lawyer...
...lads did not say thank you; they said no thanks, or rather their lawyer, a hard-case Hollywood type named J. William Hayes said it for them. Hayes informed O'Malley that the two pitchers wanted three-year contracts at $167,000 each per year. O'Malley was shocked...