Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clues of the Cornerstones. While ex-Senator McAdoo in California loudly called for the third term, while pro-New Deal Columnist Raymond Clapper warned that the President would not be "playing fair with the American people in perpetuating the uncertainty regarding . . . his intentions," while candidates Democratic and Republican tried to focus attention on the next President, President Roosevelt scattered new clues to confuse political sleuths...
Loans. In 1931 a Manhattan lawyer decided that his shares of American Tobacco Co. stock would be worth more if the company officers paid back bonuses they arranged for themselves and got no similar ones in the future. He slapped on two stockholders' suits in which the corporation, although named as defendant, would recover all the benefit...
...office in Wall Street-shared with various capable partners-flourished through the worst years of Depression: from 1932 to 1938 Louis Levy made $1,396,000. In 1933 alone he made $336,000. He bought Harold Vanderbilt's Palm Beach villa. He had great clients-among them American Tobacco Co. Defending him last week was the famed, high-priced lawyer and onetime Presidential candidate, John W. Davis...
Louis Levy called on Paul Hahn, vice president of American Tobacco Co. Louis Levy suggested to Paul Hahn that $250,000 be borrowed from Albert Lasker, then president of Lord & Thomas, advertising agency. Lord & Thomas handled the tobacco company's advertising, amounting at the time to some $19,000,000 annually (commission...
Appeals, with Judge Manton writing the decisions, threw out both suits against American Tobacco Co., one judge dissenting. Judge Manton was convicted last June for conspiring to sell decisions of his court. And, as a sequel of the Manton conviction,' Judge John Knox of the United States District Court last week, wrote a 50-page decision ordering Louis Levy's disbarment...