Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowe hastened to add, will be denied opportunity to enter a course that will be unavailable to him at a later phase of his grind towards a lawyer's shingle. The registration procedure merely calls for postponement, and not the elimination, of the selections of the fifth term...
Next day, after a night of consultation with his lawyer and Manhattan Pressagent Carl Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
...Virginia's Democratic primaries, a Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
Many first-class passengers had scarcely been out of Britain before. A lawyer whose hobby is the antiquities of London looked forward to meeting the governor of Georgia, with whom his American son-in-law was acquainted. "Do you suppose," he wondered, "that it would be indelicate of me to ask His Excellency-is that right, do you call him His Excellency?-what that mixup was all about that time they seemed to have several governors of Georgia? Would he mind discussing...