Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the early years of the New Deal, loyal Democrat Stevenson worked as a lawyer for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Federal Alcohol Control Administration. He served as an aide to Navy Secretary Frank Knox during World War II and later wrote of that period: "They used to say that if you worked in wartime Washington, you would get one of three things: galloping frustration, ulcers, or a sense of humor. I guess I got them all, and I also got a great education in war, the world, our Government and my fellow man under every sort of trial...
...Leonard Marks, 49, a Washington communications lawyer, and a close Johnson family friend who has represented the family's Austin radio-television station since 1952, to become director of the U.S. Information Agency, replacing Carl Rowan, who has resigned. Marks, who has served as assistant to the general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, has represented the U.S. at international conferences on broadcasting and communications, is presently a board member of the Communications Satellite Corp., the Government-regulated organization that owns the Early Bird satellite. Known as a first-rate administrator, his appointment to the $30,000-a-year...
...police and prosecutors have been in a tailspin ever since. Does Escobedo apply only to precisely similar situations? Or does it mean that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence automatically invalidates his confession? If interrogation requires the physical presence of a lawyer, will he not obviously advise his client to say nothing? Worried police officers now fear that as a result even valid confessions will be virtually eliminated. The Supreme Court has let 13 months pass without clarifying Escobedo. Presumably it is waiting to see whether its decision has had the intended...
...minority, ceases to be one." Barons Guy (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963) and Edmond de Rothschild went to court on the grounds that the book contained "a string of intolerable defamations and offenses to the dignity and consideration of a great family." In defense, Peyrefitte's lawyer argued that the Rothschilds, "like all the greats of this world, are open to public criticism...
...bases its case on the point that Morgan Guaranty made its purchases largely before the Dow-Jones ticker moved the news at 10:55. But Lamont contends the news was hardly secret by that time. As Lament's lawyer argued: "A director is not required to await publication of information in one particular medium before he joins in dissemination...