Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominee is a friendly, easygoing lawyer named Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., 43, an old Government hand. He started work with the Government in 1933 as a public works attorney after he had worked his way through night classes at Fordham law school by selling plumbing equipment. He moved to the Treasury in 1938, became its general counsel in 1944, but quit last year "to provide for the financial security" of his wife and two daughters. He changed his mind about Government work, which he enjoys, because "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn...
Nevertheless, the Senate is expected to confirm him, so that headless CAB can get to work again. Last week the Senate confirmed Harold A. Jones, 50, Los Angeles lawyer and World War I Marine pilot, thus filling the other vacancy on the five-man board...
...National Hockey League's present fortunes are guided by a tightlipped, teetotaling bachelor lawyer named Clarence S. Campbell, who made news a fortnight ago when he cracked down on a couple of players involved in a gambling fix (TIME, March 22). For love of hockey, Campbell ditched a profitable law practice for three years to referee big-league games. In September 1946, he was made N.H.L.'s president, given a $15,000 salary, a spacious office in league headquarters in Montreal. Campbell wants more clubs, more arenas. Says he: "It's an awfully good game...
Currently initiating a drive to expand its facilities to meet the growing demands of its clientele, the society is a philanthropic organization handling all but criminal cases for students and Cambridge residents unable to afford a lawyer...
...Only the gowns are medieval. Wigs first became fashionable in Europe in 1624, when King Louis XIII of France hid his premature baldness under a mop of false hair. For years afterward Britain's professional men continued to wear wigs that marked them as doctor, lawyer, soldier or clergyman. Today, Britain's judges and lawyers, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the clerks of Parliament and the Lord Chancellor all wear wigs on duty...