Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A demon for detail, Floriot furiously drives a research staff of six lawyers, known as "l'usine Floriot" (the Floriot factory). Gifted with prodigious memory, he can simplify the most complex case for the dullest of jurors. While other French lawyers deliver elegantly vague speeches to nodding, berobed judges...
So well known was Barton for his books and his ad copy that he was sometimes talked of as a presidential possibility. But after losing a 1940 New York senatorial race to Democrat James Mead, he returned to Madison Avenue to run his agency for another 20 years. Once, when...
Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951...
To avoid such a blunder, Congress should pass one of several proposed bills which would curb Stewart and his Congressional allies and which provide that the National Capital Planning Commission, Fine Arts Commission, and architectural profession participate in the planning of all construction in the nation's capital.
...world is trying hard to improve not only the image but also the quality of its profession. The Public Relations Society of America is conducting a drive for state accreditation and has drawn up a Code of Professional Standards, pledging its 5,600 members to uphold "generally accepted standards of accuracy, truth and good taste." Everyone knows that such codes are virtually impossible to enforce. A stronger guarantee of good conduct lies in prosperity and self-interest. Large, thriving p.r. firms with top industrial clients hardly find it worthwhile to run shoddy, vulgar campaigns. They certainly do not underestimate...