Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rumor of the week in Washington: Hoffa and Star Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams (other clients: Frank Costello, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell) will soon part company...
Verbal Report. Bender proved equally diligent at wielding a whitewash brush. Breaking an understanding with the other two commission members-a Detroit judge and a Washington lawyer-Bender went ahead on his own, using an investigative method roughly comparable to trying to solve a murder case by going to an open window and yelling, "Is anybody out there guilty?" To Teamster officials around the country-Hoffa's own men-Bender sent a form letter asking for information about racketeering, if any. Back came brief, negative replies. That was that. Without even bothering to draft a written report, Bender informed...
...response would have warmed O. Henry's heart. Newspapers all over the U.S. leaped at the bait; feature writers and editorialists wallowed in reminiscence of and sentiment for O. Henry. From a White House lawyer came a letter formally expressing President Eisenhower's "regret" that he was powerless to reverse the 60-year-old jury decree. Thereupon Texas' Democratic Representative Homer Thornberry announced that he was studying the possibility of asking for quick action by Congress. Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years...
Francesco Bracci, 79, oldest of the new cardinals, is known as "the man who never laughs." In 1914 he became a lawyer in the Sacred Rota (Vatican high court), became a top expert on matrimonial cases, is now a full judge of the Rota and secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments...
Giovanni Batista Montini, 61, universally respected throughout Italy as the brightest and busiest of prelates, is the leading new pastoral cardinal, although most of his experience has been in Vatican administration. The son of a well-to-do Brescia lawyer and member of Parliament, Montini entered the Vatican State Secretariat in 1924, where he served for 30 years, becoming (with Tardini) the late Pope's Pro-Secretary of State and one of his closest advisers. He is said to have begged off a red hat in Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made...