Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the counter-community of the dispossessed and it requires a sacrifice. There is no equivocation possible--either you are a corporate lawyer or you are a free lawyer...
McCarthyites came close to taking the state convention delegation this probably as a significant minority. They control about one third of the party now according to McCarthy leader Tom Towe, a Billings lawyer. Though nothing definite has been decided, McCarthyites and some Kennedy supporters are talking of building a Montana Democratic Council along the lines of California. Party elections are in October, 1969--the liberal bid for power will probably come at the time. The old guard will put up a strong resistance...
...local government make the party organization of little importance. The conservative Douglas County (Omaha--half the state) "courthouse gang" is about the only machine worth attacking. This the largely McCarthyite, newly-founded Nebraska Democratic Coalition is seeking to defeat in the April '69 Omaha mayoralty elections. Founded by Omaha lawyer Frank Martin Jr., the Coalition has brought in significant black support from the Northside ghetto of Omaha. The Kennedy forces who remained following the May primary have joined the Coalition. If the liberals take Omaha next year and can organize as well as they did in the '68 Presidential preference...
Denny means what he says. But before he could carry out such a threat, he would have a whole platoon of buffers to contend with. Now that the going is good, he is surrounded by a public relations man, a business agent, a lawyer and an accountant?all devoted to protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler...
While all too many Nassau-based firms consist chiefly of a brass plate on a lawyer's door and someone to answer the mail, GRAMCO's 100 Nassau staffers fill three floors in two office buildings. To make sure that every penny of income and outgo is handled meticulously, GRAMCO has turned the routine operation of the fund over to the prestigious Trust Corp. of the Bahamas, which is jointly owned by such institutions as Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., the Royal Bank of Canada and London's Westminster Bank...