Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand in virtually every important piece of domestic legislation acted on by the 80th and 81st Congresses, none of these possible Democratic candidates appeared to loom very large. But the opposition recalled how Taft had barely squeaked through against William Pickrel, a comparatively unknown Dayton lawyer, in 1944. Pickrel had faithfully echoed the policies of F.D.R. Since then Taft had made enemies by his astringent honesty, had probably lost some friends by doggedly following his conscience. The anti-Taft forces counted on a majority of Ohioans voting not for somebody but against Bob Taft-voting against Mr. Republican...
Though John had stoutly denied accepting money for negotiating any purchase of Government surpluses, witnesses testified that he had acted as an agent in a deal involving more than $40,000 worth of electrical equipment from the War Assets Administration. A Washington lawyer named George A. Chadwick Jr. announced that John had been paid $13,000-although he felt that John was not entitled to $8,032.50 of it. Chadwick complained that this sum represented 1,700,000 francs which Maragon had simply pocketed after his employers "entrusted" him with it in France...
When the Senators called John back to grill him last week, he turned up with a lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
Last week, having run up $800 in back rent, Alfred Birnbaum decided he was better off when he was in his small walk-up fiat, sold all his rights to the $15,000 dream house to a New York lawyer for $1,000, to get the blamed thing off his hands...
This week the steel companies got in their last licks. Said Robert Patterson, ex-Secretary of War and now a lawyer representing the small companies: "The facts brought out . . . make it plain that there is no fair basis for any increase in labor cost at this time...