Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Lawyer Bartley Crum, one of the attorneys for the ten Hollywood writers cited for contempt by Congress, resigned as a P.C.A. national vice chairman...
Since then, things have changed. Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far. But in Ellsworth, there is still some headshaking. Said a leading local lawyer: "I think he might better do a little whipping out there than waste time having the kids bending marrow bones, pesterin' the Lord...
Wallace was almost six feet tall, weighed only 130 Ibs., had hawklike features and a glance so concentrated as to seem ferocious. He got a job copying in a lawyer's office. Electrified by reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, he studied Spanish, began writing a novel about Montezuma in a blank book one wintry night. He became a political reporter, for substantial fees helped lazy legislators draft their bills, became second sergeant in his home-town rifle company, and failed his bar examination. "Goodbye," said his father, when he marched away to the Mexican War, "come back...
...Lawyer, Fighter, Poet. He came back a wild man. Students of his career may be reminded of Kenneth Fearing's poem...
...there seems never to have been a breathing space in his career. He was a lawyer, editor, poet, author, lecturer, a major general in the Union army, a major general in the Mexican army, a minister to Turkey, the organizer of an insurance company, a fortune-hunter, a hero. He was ruined by the Battle of Shiloh and again by postwar politics; ruined again by an attempt to organize a Mexican army. But after all his misfortunes, he wrote Ben-Hur which, both as a novel and as a play, and later as a movie, exercised a genuinely magnetic hold...