Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised to fire Feinstein from his city job if he tried to unionize the cops. New York Lawyer Godfrey P. Schmidt, one of the three monitors appointed by the U.S. District Court last year to oversee a Teamster housecleaning, thought Hoffa's police plan a piece of" "unmitigated gall," promised that the monitors would forbid...
Immediately after historic inauguration ceremonies, De Gaulle set the new republic in motion. He named as premier Michel Debre, Gaullist lawyer and an unbending nationalist...
Ambitiously billed as starring Sweden's four most beautiful women, the film is a rather lengthy erotic comedy. It concerns the diversion of a lusty lawyer, played knowingly by Gunnar Bjornstrand. While he has affairs with an actress and with the wife of his rival for the actress, his maid, who is attracted to him but succeeds only in seducing his son (an erstwhile divinity student), carries on with a groom. The simplicity of these relationships is, however, complicated by the lawyer's virginal wife's elopement with her stepson, who has finally warmed to his work and abandoned...
Pity the girl who marries Frank Duncan, clacked the gossips around the Santa Barbara, Calif, courthouse. The owl-eyed lawyer was arrogant and humorless, lisped so noticeably that teasing court clerks called him a "wicked wascal wabbit" behind his back. But that was the lesser half of it: Frank at 29 was a mamma's boy. Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once...
...code officially provides that every man may have a public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R...