Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until his reputation eroded, he had been considered a cinch for reelection. A lawyer who combined business and political acumen, Long was lieutenant governor when he became the Democrats' 1960 compromise choice to succeed the late Senator Thomas Hennings. Lapsing into Washington obscurity, he emerged in 1965 to launch an assault on federal wiretapping at the time that Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa was trying to escape prison, charging that the Government bugged his telephone. For a while, Long was the civil libertarians' darling. Then came an exposé in LIFE revealing his connections...
...Kansas Republicans chose four-term Congressman Robert Dole, 45, while Democrats picked William I. Robinson, 57, Wichita lawyer, to contest the seat of veteran Republican Senator Frank Carlson, 75, who is retiring...
Following standard procedure, Sobol, who had not been admitted to the Louisiana bar, argued the Plaquemines case in association with a local lawyer. After appearing four times without objection, he was suddenly arrested and charged with practicing without a license. Another lawyer took over the defense, and Duncan was found guilty because he touched a white boy on the arm while breaking up a threatened fight. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually reversed the conviction. Meanwhile, Sobol decided to fight his own case and went to federal court to get his trial stopped...
...ever done in his life, and he looks like he feels that way about this Convention too. Delegates, who are spending generally between $400 and $1200 dollars for their week here, say it is an experience not to be missed. One uncommitted Kansas delegate, a 61-year old lawyer, told me with obvious pride that Governor Rockefeller had personally called his home a week ago to talk...
...German theologian, niece of another and sister of two more, Elizabeth Harre decided to break the mold slightly and take up social work. After her fiance was killed during World War II, she studied sociology and law, then worked at a women's prison as a lawyer. She soon decided that it was male criminals she really wanted to work with. "Female criminals," she says, "are not the 'poor devil' kind. They are beastly and hysterical." Young men in trouble, however, "are pitiable subjects in need of a mother, a woman or a girl friend...