Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...
Died. William H. Lewis, 80, Boston Negro lawyer, onetime star Harvard football center (he captained the team for one. game against Pennsylvania in 1893); in Boston. One of the first Negro members of the American Bar Association, Lewis was appointed an Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. by President Taft...
...Alexander, 46, was named to the new post of executive vice president of J. P. Morgan & Co., thus got in line to succeed 63-year-old President George Whitney. Born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...
William H. Lewis '95, Virginia-born Negro center, who achieved fame on Harvard football teams in 1892 and 1893 and later became a prominent Boston criminal lawyer, died yesterday...