Word: sidley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House an nounced Day's resignation. He had experienced his share of frustrations in sharp-elbowed Washington, but the only reason he was leaving, he said, was that "an unusual opportunity" had knocked. He will leave the New Frontier next week to set up a Washington office for Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, the Chicago law firm in which he began a legal career 25 years...
...three-ring circus that is California Democratic politics. Born in Jacksonville. Ill., Ed Day was brilliant enough as a law student to become editor of the Harvard Law Review (1936-37). After graduation, he went to work in one of Chicago's biggest, best law firms (Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Harper), married Mary Louise Burgess, the boss's daughter. At work he became fast friends with a partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected...