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In 1933, Medalie passed on to Prot�g� Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the amazement of many an observer, Tammany also won the New York county district attorneyship for William Copeland Dodge, an obscure lower court judge.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Stennis went down to the White House to push a friend for a U.S. attorneyship, Harry Truman didn't even ask him, Stennis reported, how he intended to vote on Taft-Hartley.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lincoln, at his first sight of Douglas, during the contest with Hardin for the attorneyship, pronounced him "the least man he ever saw."

From Stephen Arnold Douglas by Brown, William Garrott

He had taken the district attorneyship with the intention of making it lead to higher political office.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer