Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Help for Hotels. The young mayor, a lawyer who had never held political office before 1961, has proved prodigiously skillful at extracting federal money to help revitalize his city. With some $70 million he has brought home from Washington so far, Detroit has resurfaced many of its streets, built a $1,800,000 addition to its art museum, financed the nation's first major anti-poverty campaign and job retraining programs. Federal Area Redevelopment Act funds were even used to help private entrepreneurs build a brand-new 25-story Pontchartrain Hotel and one of three other high-rise hotels...
...Senior Fellow. Only William Marbury could approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest friends. Such a view made him suspicious towards other leftists...
Castro Is No Exception. State Department officials recognize the inconsistency of the present doctrine and its sour aspects when applied to the likes of Castro. They maintain, however, that it works well with friendly countries, which voluntarily pay judgments against them. Says State Department Lawyer Carl Salano: "We believe that the U.S. should not deviate from adherence to domestic and international law just because certain other countries, such as Castro's Cuba, do so." But the doctrine appears ripe for further revision. Switzerland and Italy have dropped all immunity for certain types of commercial activity. Some State Department insiders...
Before he became a priest of the Episcopal Church, San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike was a lawyer. Last week, at a meeting of the House of Bishops in East Glacier, Mont., Pike showed that he still has his old court room skill. The 142 assembled prelates considered two issues in which he was attorney for the defense. Pike won one case and established significant precedents in the other...
...worded canon on deaconesses approved by last year's general convention, which implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could be deemed a "minor function" of deaconesses and thus permissible. Finally the committee brought in a no-nonsense substitute resolution that flatly stated: "Deaconesses may not be permitted to administer the elements of the Holy Communion...