Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer," writes Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Aug. 4), "has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last...
Secretary of the Army, hulking, even-tempered Kenneth C. Royall, former Under Secretary of War and Secretary since Bob Patterson's resignation last month, a onetime North Carolina lawyer, wartime brigadier general in the Army Service Forces, whose ambition is to run for governor of North Carolina...
Baudelaire explained what he meant in an essay written in 1863, when Delacroix died, and now published for the first time in English (Delacroix; Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...
...Members: Manhattan Lawyer Thomas K. Finletter (chairman), Harvard Professor George P. Baker, Denver Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt, Henry Ford II, Arthur D. Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet...
Then his father, a Missouri lawyer, and Professor Ed Levi, of the Chicago Uni versity Law School, began to tell him that he might be heading for trouble. The Atomic Energy Act (which Levi helped to write) is vaguely phrased in spots but it has teeth like a Tyrannosaurus. For one thing, the Act threatens with the death penalty anyone who transmits U.S. atomic secrets to a foreign nation...