Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Amory Jr. '36, a Washington lawyer, is the new Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. He took over in June from Thomas D. Cabot...
...leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping centers in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Decatur, Ill., apartment projects in Indianapolis and St. Louis, and Chicago...
...command for the first time in 80 years. Acting out of a conviction that "any organization has to make room for younger men," he passed most of his duties to a pair of carefully groomed, if nonfamily, successors. Macy's new chairman is Donald B. Smiley, 53, a lawyer and finance expert who has been vice chairman since 1966. The current president, Ernest L. Molloy, 62, succeeds Straus as chief executive...
...fight against Freedom of Choice. The first, held in early August, was mainly valuable as a theatrical production. The name of the suit--The United States of America vs. The United Klans of America--hinted what kind of an affair it would be. An inexperienced Justice Department lawyer brought a parade of 50 residents of Crenshaw County, Ala., to the stand and had them tell what the Klan had been doing to keep Freedom of Choice from working in the county's schools...
...defense's case was even more picturesque than the prosecution's. Ira Dement, a sometimes-liberal lawyer with a hound-dawg face, cross-examined each of the black witnesses, always beginning with the question, "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" His defense case was as straightforward as it was absurd, consisting of character-witness testimony from assorted Klan members...