Word: vinson
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Within a year, Warren's career took a sudden, decisive turn. In September 1953 Chief Justice Fred Vinson died. President Eisenhower was under pressure to name a successor before the court convened in October. As Associate Justice William O. Douglas tells it, Vice President Nixon and Senator William Knowland went to Ike and urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather...
...Bates. Through the years, he showed a talent for absorbing a mass of complex information literally overnight and giving a masterly performance in court the next morning. He became a senior partner in 1951. Today Fulbright, Crocker & Jaworski ranks second only to John Connally's law firm of Vinson, Elkins, Searls, Connally & Smith in power and prestige in Texas. In 1971 Jaworski was honored when he was selected president of the American Bar Association...
...Mercer University, where he appeared to help observe both the 100th anniversary of the law school and the 90th birthday of former Congressman Carl Vinson, a small group of protesters detracted little from the President's rousing reception. Nixon's only reference to his troubles was a typical football analogy: "I followed the Falcons, and I guess you would call them the comeback team of 1973," he said. "They lost their first three and they have won their last six. I ought to have a talk with Norm Van Brocklin [the Atlanta Falcons coach] and find...
...GEORGIA. Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, a grandnephew of Carl Vinson, who served for 50 years in the House, hopes to win a Georgia Senate seat himself by rekindling ancient urban-rural differences. Whether Nunn, a farmer, lawyer, state legislator and ex-basketball star from middle Georgia, can succeed may depend partly on the popularity of Richard Nixon among traditional rural Democrats and on a well-mounted G.O.P. campaign...
...beginning, and he assumed hero proportions after being badly wounded in the Kennedy assassination. He lost much blood and spent about two months convalescing, but suffered no permanent disability. When Connally left office in 1968, he signed on with one of the leading Texas law firms, Houston's Vinson, Elkins and Searls. Estimates of his earnings ran as high as $800,000 a year. He was already a wealthy man with an estimated worth of between $2,000,000 and $5,000,000. He owns the $300,000 Tortuga Ranch in Southwest Texas. On his 10,000-acre Floresville ranch...