Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt made him Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933, only to fire him six months later for objecting to Roosevelt's dollar devaluation policy. To friends, Roosevelt dusted Acheson off as a "lightweight." The lightweight promptly built up a small fortune as a corporation lawyer in Washington. He bought a fine home in swank Georgetown for his pretty artist wife and a 120-acre farm in Maryland. He picked up fat fees from utility companies fighting the New Deal. Though he was not a Government official when war in Europe came along, he helped put over...
...Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation. A protégé of North Carolina's late O. Max Gardner, Webb became Truman's Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman...
...wife got him a lawyer, swore that she still wanted him-black or white. But if he were proved to be a Negro (Virginia's definition: "every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood"), he would be guilty of miscegenation-a crime punishable by as much as five years in the penitentiary...
...whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta lawyer named Willis Meade Everett Jr., had discovered facts which turned the case into one of the ugliest in the history of the war crimes trials...
After three years, Panayiota finally found a lawyer who would listen to her. Last November, in Nicosia's green-walled district court, Panayiota faced Zekia Bey, the judge. Nervously she displayed photographs of her dead Scot lover: Blue Eyes clearly looked like him. Then swarthy Mrs. Shatis stepped to the bar. She cried hysterically that Blue Eyes was hers...