Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man, he had twice been elected to Congress from West Virginia. From 1913 to 1918 he was Woodrow Wilson's solicitor general, went to London (1918-21) as U.S. ambassador, came home to be nominated (after 103 ballots) as the Democratic candidate for President, and was roundly beaten by Cal Coolidge. Senior partner of a first-line Manhattan law firm, he had argued 136 cases before the Supreme Court. He looked thoroughly at home in his black sack coat and striped trousers, as he sat calmly in the lawyers' sector waiting for the proceedings to begin...
...Until he is confirmed, McGranery will not be Attorney General. Meanwhile, the powers of the office are in the hands of Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman...
Finally he received permission to plead his case before the Supreme Court. Representing the other side was a well-balanced roster of legal talent that included Thomas C. Clark (then Assistant to the Attorney General), Solicitor General Charles C. Fahy, an Army major-general, and three Department of Justice attorneys. Nevertheless, Billings won the decision, the Supreme Court forcing the Army to turn him over to civil courts...
...plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg, he'd look like any banker or solicitor arriving for a day's work at the office. And that helicopter of his gets to look more like a limousine every...
...year was therefore 183 days. The revenue people, determined to get their man, dug up an 1842 tax law which says that six months means six lunar months. This would have defeated Wilkie but Judge Sir Terence Norbert Donovan ruled the 1842 law out of date. Britain's Solicitor General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, for the Inland Revenue Commissioners, then argued that an old general rule of law states that fractions of days shall be treated as whole days. Thus, both June 2 and Dec. 2 counted as full days, and, for their purposes, Wilkie had been in England...