Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office said Hunt had cancelled his scheduled trip to Cambridge to consult his lawyer over the affair...
Bureaucrat's Lawyer. The Black Tom case brought McCloy to the attention of a shrewd judge of men, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson. In 1940, when Stimsori went to Washington as Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of War, he made McCloy his special consultant on German espionage...
...McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard Law School...
...Lawyer's Lawyer. McCloy graduated from Harvard Law in 1921 with good grades, though he missed Law Review by a shadow. Nowadays a good friend as well as former student of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, McCloy jokes over the fact that the Justice did not remember him at Harvard: "He kept all the smart boys in the front row." McCloy headed for the big law firms of Wall Street. First with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, later with Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, he and other fledgling "clerks" read and studied morning & night, drafting contracts, charters and all the other...
...troubleshooter, and expert in the solution of conflicts between people and between ideas. The business of the law is to find a way through difficult human problems toward workable and just answers. What McCloy did from 1941 to 1945 in Washington and on half a dozen battlefields was a lawyer's job-not the courtroom lawyer, but the lawyer who keeps his client out of the courtroom...