Word: lawyerly
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Last week the Supreme Court agreed to review Hoffa's conviction on charges of tampering with a Nashville jury in a 1962 federal trial, for which he was sentenced in 1964 to eight years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Though the Teamsters' lawyers had questioned the conviction on 21 points, the court limited its review to their contention that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin...
Whatever the court decides, it has given Hoffa what a Justice Department lawyer called "a year's free pass." Thus Hoffa is virtually guaranteed re-election to the Teamsters' presidency at the union's convention in July. "I will certainly run," he said last week, "and I do not expect any opposition...
Tammanyphobes. Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman, 45, a former show-business lawyer and a city councilman, is what his name implies, a direct political descendant of Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, and a Tammanyphobe from the school that brought on Fiorello La Guardia, Senator Jacob Javits and Mayor Lindsay. In the absence of debate, Kupferman has emphasized his legislative experience, reminds everyone that he is a "man like Lindsay," and even has Javits, Lindsay's chairman, to supervise his campaign-assisted by Tom Brownell, 25, son of Dwight Eisenhower's Attorney General...
Senator Robert Kennedy, who certainly knew what he was talking about, pronounced the introduction: "I am satisfied that he possesses the qualifications." U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren smiled down from the bench, and with that, Ted Sorensen, 39, a lawyer (University of Nebraska) who became John Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. His memoirs behind him, Sorensen has joined the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which once had a partner named Adlai Stevenson...
...lawyer in Auchincloss forbears to pass judgment. Instead, he lets Guy Prime, Rex Geer and Angelica do it, in each of the book's three parts. Their testimony conflicts so widely, just as testimony does in courts, that the reader may end up wishing that the author had donned magistrate's robes and handed down a verdict...