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...positions at the oil installations, and the companies apparently felt that they had no choice but to pay the de facto government. This gave the Eastern regime a degree of recognition, and may have convinced Gowon that the time had come to demonstrate that he could en force his writ throughout Nigeria...
Dale Carnegie Writ Large...
...public relations counsel as a "societal technician who is fitted by training and experience to evaluate the maladjustments and adjustments between his client and the publics upon whom the client is dependent for his socially sound activity." More simply, Author Robert Heilbroner observes: "Public relations is Dale Carnegie writ large." The good p.r. man is, above all, a specialist in communications. He tries to write or edit messages so that they will carry a certain meaning; he tries to report and sometimes stage-manage situations so that the public will see his client in a certain light. He must...
Died. John F. Finerty, 82, acerbic trial lawyer who defended many unpopular causes, in the 1920s fought for the release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...
...hearing. Neither Gerald nor his parents were advised of any right to counsel or of his right to keep silent. They had little or no advance notice of the charges against him. No transcript was kept of the proceedings, and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get any sort of review. The offense was punishable by a maximum of two months and $50 if Gerald had been an adult. Since he was only 15, however, he could be and was committed to the State Industrial School until he turned...