Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illinois' machine-hardened Democrats quivered with trepidation last week when their gentlemanly candidate for governor, Lawyer-Diplomat Adlai E. Stevenson (TIME, Jan. 12), trundled off to Bloomington to open his primary campaign. They needn't have been so nervous...
...would set up a "little capital" in Baton Rouge. He wanted to prepare for the legislature; he had 3,000 jobs to hand out. The biggest, that of executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which the New Orleans States estimated would cost the state no less than a billion dollars...
...Having passed for 45 years as a white man, Wall Street Lawyer T. John McKee went to court to prove that he was the only surviving grandchild of the late Col. John McKee, Negro Civil War veteran and real-estate operator, who died in Philadelphia in 1902 and left an estate now worth...
There were about 400 in the crowd. It included a Texas oil millionaire, a Philadelphia income-tax lawyer, and a professional gambler from Memphis. Fourteen cockfighters had each posted $1,000 to enter...
...controlling interest in North American and Bemberg, which are jointly managed. (The Dutch got AKU's other U.S. subsidiary, American Enka Corp.) No sooner had the Government taken over when a squabble broke out between the board of directors and OAP Boss David L. Bazelon, a New Dealing lawyer who had given up a $50,000-a-year law practice to work for the Government...