Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do the trick was no magician, and not even a farmer. He was a bald, inconspicuous Colorado lawyer, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. Last week Brannan went before the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and solemnly pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Even as rabbits go, it was a queer-looking animal...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative Whitehaller, lifting his eyes to the ceiling: "If only all the people we had to deal with were like Finletter...
...yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained why he had never written his memoirs. Wrote Petain (according to his lawyer): "I would have had to praise myself and say unpleasant things about others...
...Savannah, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor got married to Arnold Krakower, the lawyer who helped her get the divorce last December from husband No. 2, Clarinetist Artie Shaw...
Love In May. Beau James is the Walker story as told by Gene Fowler, whose biographies of other gifted scapegraces (John Barrymore in Good Night, Sweet Prince; Manhattan Lawyer William Fallon in The Great Mouthpiece; Denver Publishers Bonfils and Tammen in Timber Line) were bestsellers. Fowler writes of "the good old days" (a phrase that seems to mean the '205 now) sometimes as if he had a fistful of firecrackers, sometimes as if his pen had a tear duct. But the material (much of it new) lends itself perfectly to the Fowler flair for the sympathetically lusty tale...