Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Glenn Ford plays a righteous young defense lawyer in Trial...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Benjamin Butler-"The Beast"-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. A famed criminal lawyer in private life, he earned Southerners' undying hatred as the harsh but generally fair governor of occupied New Orleans, later became an impassioned champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. Historian West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted Beast...
...snowy-haired, courtly Virginian, Fowler was born in Roanoke, the son of a locomotive engineer. He graduated from Yale Law School, served as a New Deal-era counsel for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Federal Power Commission. In the 1940s he was a lawyer for the War Production Board; during the Korean War he rose to director of the Office of Defense Mobilization...
...Court. In the 1920s the failing Justice Joseph McKenna once wrote an opinion stating the exact opposite of what all nine Justices, including himself, had voted to say. As for state courts, there have been many efforts to let bar groups monitor unfit judges and recommend removal. But what lawyer wants to bring charges against the very judge who may hear his next case...
...judges at every level, including its own. The state legislature and California voters overwhelmingly approved such an amendment in 1960. The bench-dominated body that has been set up to do the high court's investigating work is a nine-member Commission on Judicial Qualifications-five judges, two lawyers and two laymen. The commission operates out of San Francisco under Executive Secretary Jack E. Frankel, an able, tactful lawyer...