Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Senate Committee headed by Senator Borah, which had been investigating the indictment of Senator Wheeler in Montana, had made its reports (TIME, May 26). The question was whether Mr. Wheeler had been justifiably indicted by a Montana jury, for accepting fees to represent a client before the Federal Government. The majority report of the Committee (made by four members) declared that the indictment was unjustified. The minority report (made by one member, Senator Sterling of South Dakota) declared the indictment was justified on the basis of such facts as had been presented to the grand jury...
...terror." A rich man, Adolph Spreckles, animated by vanity or patriotic zeal, employed the man years ago. Heney secured the confessions of a number of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Holding these confessions like blades of Damocles he "ruled" the city in accordance with the instructions of Client Spreckles. It became a "government by injunction." Tsar Spreckles, said the Los Angeles Times, "sat in his palatial home and delivered his ukases." When Heney ran for District Attorney he was soundly drubbed...
...slinging time, to attacks on account of his connection with oil businesses or with any other very profitable corporations. The present investigations made a lawyer more desirable at the head of the Navy Department than an ordinary business man. But almost any able and active lawyer might have a client who could be spattered on his reputation. A selection from the bench was almost inevitable. Moreover, from a political standpoint, a western progressive was desirable...
...other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...
...subject presents few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man nor are you, gentlemen the men to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness and systematic villainy. It is difficult to smile with an aching heart?it is ill jesting when our deepest sympathies are awakened. My client's prospects are ruined. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed . . . while his mother weeps...