Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Richie Mack, 48, were these undenied, undeniable facts: ¶Since becoming a member of the seven-member FCC by appointment of President Eisenhower in 1955, he had borrowed at least $2,650 from his longtime friend Miami Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, a big man-about-Florida. Whiteside. as a pompous, disputatious witness last week, admitted that he had been on National Airlines' side and had talked to Mack about the bitterly fought case. ¶In 1953 Whiteside gave Mack, then a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a one-sixth interest in an insurance agency...
...said Whiteside had just "informed me" about Andar, and "didn't ge into the details." What did all this add up to? Had it never even occurred to Richie Mack that it was highly improper for a Federal Communications Commissioner to accept thousands of dollars from a lawyer interested in a case before the FCC? Replied Witness Mack...
Even before the final returns were in last week, followers of ousted Dictator Juan Perón began talking loudly of their payoff for handing Argentina's presidency to Lawyer Arturo Frondizi (TIME. March 3). Just as quickly, the 49-year-old President-elect began hedging. There was no doubt that Frondizi owed his victory to the exiled strongman; whether it was a collectible debt remained to be seen...
...from a first-rate Southern reporter. To cover the story in depth the United Press assigned able, Georgia-born Alfred G. Kuettner, the U.P.'s longtime Atlanta bureau chief. Promised the U.P.'s Executive Editor Harry Ferguson: "If there are any squawks, I'll be your lawyer...
Married. Usher L. Burdick, 79, Republican Congressman from North Dakota for 17 years, lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books; and Jean Rodgers, thirtyish, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington...