Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Hogan, onetime Brooklyn urchin, now Washington's smartest, cockiest criminal attorney, had secured Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected: The $100,000 cash was a friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused...
Mergers. Vigorous prosecution of every violation of the anti-trust laws was promised by Attorney General Mitchell. Changes in business conditions resulting in mergers, new methods of marketing, vertical trusts and chain stores have become so thick and fast as to be confusing to those dealing with anti-trust laws. But the Attorney-General believes the principles of present statutes will be intelligently applied by the courts. Prosperity and expansion, he thought, have increased anti-trust transgressions. Important and beneficial is the promised policy of the Department of Justice regarding questions submitted on proposed mergers and business transactions. No longer...
Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...
More placid than that of the general practitioner is the lot of most patent lawyers. But last week in Manhattan, Patent Attorney Aaron L. Applebaum was called upon by two of his clients, the brothers Leonardo and Pietro Danna, recent immigrants from Sicily. They had invented a water bicycle. They had wanted a patent. They had asked Mr. Applebaum to get it for them, then called frequently to see if it had come. Unable to comprehend the law's delay, by nature suspicious and cranky, Brother Pietro now drew a gun, shot Patent Attorney Applebaum to death...
...School Committee has scheduled two speakers to address the students during the coming months. The Honorable Emory R. Buckner, former federal district attorney of New York City will have for a topic "Practice in New York City", on Tuesday evening, November 12. January 17, the Honorable E. F. Katzenbach, Attorney General of New Jersey, will speak on "The Lawyer in Public Life...