Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When his wife was arrested for speeding in Pennsylvania recently, Amateur Lawyer Hamilton argued that the fine was illegal because the Justice of the Peace admitted he was getting a kickback in fees. "Who says it's illegal?" demanded the magistrate. "The U.S. Supreme Court? I knew it was one of those courts that has no jurisdiction up here in Pennsylvania. That...
...star (Rhode Island's, that is) taken out of the flag in the Tribune lobby. When a deskman suggested that defacing the flag might be illegal, the Colonel had him call the Tribune's attorneys, and stood by for their ruling. Out of the receiver came the lawyer's anguished squawk, loud enough for the Colonel to hear: "Now who in hell wants to cut a star out of the flag...
...drawn into controversy.. "I have been in the midst of controversial issues all my life," he replies to queries about the New Deal or the Supreme Court. "This is not the time for that." He has already achieved substantially all the honors that can be accorded to a lawyer. He retires from the University in an aura of faculty-student regret at giving up a great thinker and a great teacher. But it is an aura of mutual good will...
...Lawyer Quigg, the first native son in Denver's line of 32 mayors, was the antithesis of his predecessor. The son of a wealthy Denver Republican, he played football at Phillips Academy at Andover, learned law at Yale, served an exploratory year as a legal secretary with SEC. During the war he flew a Washington desk as a commander in the Naval Air Transport Service, came back to Denver with an itch to give the city a liberal, non-partisan mayoralty administration...
Stone was summoned to the NBC throne room in Manhattan and told that the show was "great." But the network, afraid to take on a program that was so pointedly "cultural," advised the young lawyer to move the show over to WGY, Schenectady, and experiment with it for a while longer...