Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, since I was a young lawyer, I have wanted to be a judge," Connecticut's big, friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...
...MacArthur not only says it, he gets away with it-in that he carries at least the conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart...
Rogge is an eminent lawyer and a former U. S. Assistant Attorney General. However, his book will not be taken too seriously by many people who consider that he is now less respectable because he ran for New York County Surrogate on the American Labor Party ticket and because he has defended unpopular people in generally unpopular causes...
...State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier...
...seventh biggest U.S. producer. But Sykes had also established a rule for automatic retirement at age 65. This week, 65-year-old Wilfred Sykes stepped upstairs to become chairman of the executive committee. He turned over the presidency to his assistant, Clarence Belden Randall, 58. A Harvard-trained lawyer who this week also became head of the Harvard Alumni Association, Randall was named a vice president in 1930, had been Sykes's right-hand man since last October...