Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer's eye, there seemed to be many another loophole and many an arguable provision in the Taft-Hartley Act, as there was in the Wagner Act. Final interpretation will only come, as it did with the Wagner Act, after years of litigation in the nation's courts...
...issue was one which troubled many a U.S. schoolmaster, and many a parent. In Royal Oak, Principal Marks was damned by some parents as harsh and hasty. But a few supported him. Said Lawyer Gilbert Davis: "My 16-year-old daughter and I knew it was illegal. I drove her home from the initiation when she reeked from the cheese they rubbed in her hair, and I gave her $12 for the pin. I let her do it because there's enough snob in me to be proud when my daughter gets into something exclusive. It was wrong...
...Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder...
...ordinary M.P. is always called Honorable; if he is in the armed forces, he is Honorable and Gallant; if he is also a lawyer, he is Honorable, Gallant and Learned...
...Hesitate? The test was pointedly addressed to U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer George Addes; California C.I.O. man Philip Connelly; Ernest de Maio, a leader in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America; Author-Correspondent Quentin Reynolds; Lawyer Bartley C. Crum; Hunter College Assistant Professor Emmanuel Chapman; Radio Commentator J. Raymond Walsh; T.W.U. President Michael J. Quill; Screen Writers' Guild President Emmet Lavery; Josephine Timms, secretary-treasurer of the American Communications Association. And, says the C.W.V., there are a few more to come...