Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months there had been rumors in the aviation industry that Transport Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for his outstanding performance at CAB?which he turned from a so-so agency into one of the best-run in Washington ?was going to be moved up. A Florida-born lawyer who logged more than 3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and combat planes in World War II, Boyd was first named to the CAB in 1959 by President Eisenhower. Two years later John Kennedy elevated him to chairman, a job to which he had been reappointed each year since...
...Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secretary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd as CAB chairman, though he has virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched...
Philip M. Cronin '52, the Coop's lawyer, last night dismissed Dietz's action as "absurd" and "mystifying." "I just can't believe any injunction will be granted," he said...
...petition for injunction is identical to one refused in late March, but Dietz's lawyer is resubmitting it on the grounds that the trial over the annex's alleged zoning violations has been moved up until June. Dietz, a local property owner, claims that the annex, as currently designed, exceeds the permissible 4-1 ratio of floor area to plot and does not allow enough space for an off-street truckloading dock...
...splits and stock dividends. Mahl's ruling raises the possibility that he may yet throw out the jury's verdict. Steele, the man who had been derisively described in court as the gladhander, door-opener, court jester and party giver at Litton, seemed unconcerned. Sitting in his lawyer's office, he made known his immediate plans: a champagne party for the jurors...