Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighter. Until he started campaigning in mid-September, few Philadelphians had heard of Dick Dilworth. At 49, he is a handsome, socialite lawyer with a family of eight children (four by his first wife, two by his second, two stepchildren). He fought with the Marines in both World Wars. Between wars, he finished his undergraduate work at Yale (class of '21), stayed on to get a law degree, and, in 1926, settled down to practice in Philadelphia. He subsequently specialized in libel law. Among his clients: the Curtis Publishing Co., the Inquirer, N. W. Ayer...
William and Henry apparently went to school when & where they pleased, mostly in Europe. Henry entered Harvard Law School in 1862 with no intention of becoming a lawyer. William got his M.D. from Harvard Medical School but never practiced. Later, when he had become the nation's top psychologist, he wrote: "I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality . . . the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave...
...bedside, one learns to suffer fools gladly, to disagree and not be disagreeable, to listen to most preposterous nonsense, to act as a confidential family lawyer, and to act as a priest hearing confession...
Chuck telephoned his Washington lawyer, ex-Congressman Jim Barnes, of Illinois, to send him all the statistics he could find. Chuck alerted Manhattan's and Chicago's advertising agencies. "Get some ideas." He told the agency men to meet him three days hence in Washington's Carlton Hotel. While copywriters and layout artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship...
...Chairman Thomas K. Finletter, Wall Street lawyer; Harvard's George P. Baker; Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post; Dun & Bradstreet's Arthur D. Whiteside; Industrialist John A. McCone...