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...came in the selection of his assistants. Every one he has picked so far has the highest possible rating in Martindale-Hubbell, the official directory of the American bar. This is in sharp contrast with some of the department's recent personnel, e.g., former Deputy Attorney General Gus Vanech, who thrice failed to pass the District of Columbia bar examination and had to try it in Tennessee, where the examination was easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cleanup Man | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Twin Purposes. The Commission had worked for three months under Assistant Attorney General A. Devitt Vanech, a billiard-bald lawyer from Connecticut with 14 years' service in the Justice Department. Other members represented the State, Treasury, War & Navy Departments and the Civil Service Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The First Loyalty | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Last week the President also: Vanech, to devise rules for keeping subversive or disloyal employes out of federal service. ¶Named a Republican small-businessman, William Chapman Foster of New York, to succeed Democrat Alfred Schindler, resigned, as Under Secretary of Commerce.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White Tie | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco of the Bank of Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insulliana | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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