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Faced with this situation, Tommy D'Alesandro and others took steps to get Jack Pollack into line. Two of Pollack's lieutenants recently got good political jobs, and Pollack's son-in-law was made assistant city solicitor...
...City Solicitor Frank J. McKenna said, "I certainly don't agree with their interpretation of Catholic doctrine, but they do have civil rights...
Dean Watson yesterday cleared up the confusion surrounding next year's Combined Charities drive by reaffirming the University's policy that no solicitor other than those from the Combined Charities would be allowed to visit students' rooms...
...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...
Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...