Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Douglas' report dealt extensively without mincing words on lawyers' parts in corporate reorganizations: "The size of the lawyers' bill must frequently be astounding to security holders and others. This cannot be taken to mean that their compensation is always excessive. . . . The vice of the situation remains despite persuasive arguments that particular jobs are well done. The vice is that the bar has been charging all that the traffic will bear. It has forsaken the tradition that its members are officers of the court. .. . Organization for the practice of law on the large scale of mass production...
...Harvard Law School classroom a student asked Professor Warren A. Seavey if he did not believe that Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson would have soon been defeated had Chicago newspapers fearlessly exposed his tarnished regime. Replied Professor Seavey: "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor of Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor...
...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital, Edward Lawford, brother of Actress Betty Lawford (The Women), brought Hearst Sports Columnist Martene W, ("Bill") Corum with flesh wounds in his left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum...
Within the hour prior to his sudden death in a committee room in Ohio's State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory...
Already Missouri has passed an "antidiscriminatory" bill favored by local brewers (but not by U. S. distillers) seeking protection for their home market, which in effect bars from Missouri the alcoholic produce of 30 other States.* Pending in Connecticut, Illinois, Rhode Island and Wisconsin Legislatures are similar bills. Iowa and Nebraska rejected them...