Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reducators at Harvard" last year fell into the hands of City Councilman John D. Lynch who tried to get the City Council to pass a Communist Control Bill in Cambridge. The bill was blocked by the City Solicitor, who claimed that false accusations would prove to be libelous...
Lynch tried to get the City Council to investigate the professors and pass a Communist control bill. However, the motion died when City Solicitor John Daly maintained that false accusations would be libelous...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, 51, a Scotsman who became one of Britain's famous barristers in his career, King's Counsel at 33. then Solicitor General and Attorney General -Home Secretary and also Minister for Welsh Affairs (a new post created by Churchill to appease Welsh nationalists). Fyfe was a prosecutor at the Niirnberg war crime trials, has a special interest in transport, industrial development, town & country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship...
Sometime this week a solicitor will knock on your door and hand you a pledge for the Combined Charities Drive. Don't turn him down. The committee is trying to raise more than the $20,000 contributed last year, and the need is greater than ever...
...most extraordinary Yank Oxford has ever had -a sort of one-man Anglo-American alliance, whose interests have flitted back & forth across the Atlantic like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...