Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance laws (TIME, Feb. 9), deployed elements of his 653-man state police force to prevent the rowdies from taking over and to give muscle to the general respect for law and order. Result: a state of order that made Virginia...
...Madrid hotel fortnight ago, 90 prominent Spaniards sat down to a dinner duly registered with the police as a monarchist lawyers' meeting to discuss professional technicalities. In fact, many of the diners were not lawyers at all, and at least one was noted for republican sympathies. And when the speeches began, the technicalities of Spanish law were hardly mentioned. While police observers sat by, pencils racing, Joaquin de Satrústegúi, a wealthy Basque lawyer, launched into a go-minute attack on the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco, declared Lawyer Satrústeg...
...watching nearby, stepped over and said, "Officer, you can't arrest that man." The policeman turned without a word and slugged Nathan in the face. Two more patrolmen joined in as he was knocked down, clubbed and kicked. Then police arrested both, charging "drunkenness" and refused to permit a lawyer and a doctor called by Mrs. Nathan to see the prisoners, Coulter stated...
...keep potentially troublesome university students in line, Trujillo organized the "President Trujillo University Police." Bodies of the few remaining opposition lawyers, students and journalists began cluttering up the usually super-sanitary streets. El Caribe laconically reported that one lawyer was found with every bone in his body broken. "Rumor has it," said the paper, "that he was hit by a truck." Afraid of similar "accidents," 14 refugees scuttled to sanctuary in the Venezuelan embassy...
...green millions Dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies had lugged away. Castro's government ordered all $500 and $1,000 bills turned in, decreed that visitors to Cuba could bring in no more than 50 pesos. Canadian Gold Broker John Rogers (TIME, Dec. 15) reported that a Miami lawyer, acting for a pro-Batista exile, was trying to convert 500,000 pesos into bullion...