Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Einhorn, former fellow at the Institute of Politics, is free on $40,000 bail after his lawyer Thursday forced a postponement of his preliminary hearing on the grounds that Philadelphia police charged Einhorn improperly at the time of his arrest on March...
Einhorn's lawyer, Arlen Specter, gained a postponement because police charged Einhorn with homicide before the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office ascertained that Helen Maddux, found dead in Einhorn's apartment on March 28, had in fact been murdered, Vincent A. DiGirolamo, second deputy clerk of Quarter Sessions Court, said yesterday...
...financial shenanigans that politicians and bankers employed to allow the city to continue its spendthrift ways. His discussion of the Nelson Rockefeller championing of moral obligation bonds clearly explains how an irresponsible procedure, responsibly put forth, grew into common practice. Moral obligation bonds, designed by then little-known bond lawyer John Mitchell, allowed the state to sell bonds to the public without voter approval, as had previously been the rule. Rockefeller claimed that projects funded by moral obligation bonds would pay for themselves, but because the government invested them in non-revenue producing projects, they did not. When the Urban...
...surrounded by Pip, the haughty Estella, the lawyer Jaggers, the convict Magwitch, Miss Havisham could be the kind of flamboyant character, drawn with simple, sharp lines, on which operas thrive. Mozart used a similar virago, the Queen of the Night, in The Magic Flute. But Pip, Estella and Jaggers (Magwitch is left out entirely) appear and disappear, little more than shadows crossing Miss Havisham's feverish brain...
Russell Higley, a city lawyer who drafted the legislation, said the square footage restriction had "a good chance of being upheld in court. We knew it would be challenged, and we drafted it with an eye to that," Higley added...