Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than hope. She worked part-time as a cook, spent about $7,000 of her own and her brother's money trying to get her husband out of prison. For 24 years she found only frustration; but two years ago she found Luis Kutner, a flashy, wealthy Chicago lawyer...
After Kutner took the case (he likes to take on "charity cases" which intrigue him), he discovered that all important court records were destroyed or missing. But Lawyer Kutner's investigators did obtain a medical report submitted by a Dr. John E. Walter of Waukegan the day after the crime. It showed that Mamie Snow had not been raped. The prosecution, ruthlessly bent on convicting him, had suppressed the report...
Meanwhile, to fill the cabinet vacancy, Perón dredged up a little-known criminal lawyer named Hipólito Jesús Paz, 32. A moderate nationalist, the new Foreign Minister is a junior partner in a Buenos Aires law firm whose clients include the notorious Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker. As for Private Citizen Bramuglia, a poor man, he planned to practice law after a trip...
...before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children to kiss...
...turned out to be quite a good solution. Springfield was chosen (though on one ballot a disgusted vote was cast for Purgatory), the voters got their new county, and Representative Lincoln got reelected. He moved to Springfield himself and set up shop as a lawyer, with something of a reputation...