Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Mr. Bonaparte, as Attorney General, wanted me to prosecute the Standard Oil Company, I was a member of a law firm of which Mr. Rogers was a client. I did not accept...
...penalty will descend upon Senator Wheeler for having served his client in Montana. But if he appeared before the Department of the Interior on behalf of his client, he can be fined $10,000, or imprisoned for two years, or both...
...alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler's senatorial...
...Wheeler goes on trial in Montana on Apr. 16, under an indictment returned a year ago charging that, while Senator, he accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry...
...came to an end. The jury awarded Mrs. Dennistoun $30,000 damages against her divorced husband, since married to Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon. The question of costs was still under consideration. Immediately after the case, a firm of solicitors in London announced that a "young, unmarried and beautiful" client intended to bring a suit against Colonel Dennistoun for breach of promise. The lady was said to be an American, alleged to be Lois Meredith, cinema star, who, interrogated in Manhattan, did not deny that she was the "young, unmarried and beautiful" woman referred to, but declined to make...