Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does every Russian want to be an engineer while every American boy wants to be a lawyer, a politician or an advertising man? How many engineers in the U.S. own Cadillacs and have summer homes on Long Island? Damned few. Why burn the midnight oil learning trigonometry ? We should make the engineer the hero of a few films-then he might become fashionable...
...U.S.A., wrote Lawyer Bachmann, "was launched by the American Bar Association, among other reasons, as a counter irritant to the unrelenting work of those who try to tear down our democratic form of government. State bar associations, county bar associations, large and small city bar associations, gave their collective and mighty support to the wonderful movement...
Foreign Minister: Maurice Couve de Murville, 51, lawyer, financial expert, career diplomat. Son of a judge in Reims, and a Protestant, Couve de Murville became Inspector of Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve...
Justice Minister: Michel Debré, lawyer, Senator of France, longtime Gaullist and fire-breathing patriot. Hates the idea of European integration, was French delegate to the Strasbourg Assembly, where he blasted the plan for a European free market and the joint use of atomic power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe...
...Dealing New York Lawyer Morris Ernst, who has defended liberal causes ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to the Sauerkraut Workers Union, this week finished a chore with a somewhat different aroma. After ten months on the payroll of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic...