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...Shyster" & "Spoiled Child." The delegate-hungry Taftmen, obeying the Biblical injunction to forgive their enemies seventy times seven times, have clasped Hallanan to their bosoms once more, and this time they expect him to stay clasped. As temporary chairman, Hallanan will take the gavel a few moments after National Chairman Guy Gabrielson raps the convention to order on July 7, and will preside until after the keynote. He will be in charge when the convention adopts rules and seats contested delegates, when his rulings might be disastrous to the Eisenhower forces. Theoretically, a ruling of the chairman can be reversed...
...umpire we'll have a man who is already a player in the game." Campaign Manager Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speculated that he might take a megaphone to Chicago, in case Hallanan refused to let Ikemen use the microphones. Taftmen on the arrangements committee, said Lodge, had used "shyster tactics...
Specialized Need. In Ft. Wayne, Ind., the Better Business Bureau received a call from a woman who wanted to know the name of a shyster lawyer, because "I figure it will take a crooked one to win this case...
Through a crooked shyster (Wallace Ford), he makes a deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...
...faced widow is haled before a grim judge and jury, Author Trollope has haled half of England into his novel-including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...