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Word: client (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting Co.'s officials convinced themselves the program was "a good thing," had it broadcast from a private studio where no visitors were allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Court Adjourned | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...them side by side, the King and Mrs. Simpson?" asked a disappointed client of motherly mien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scarlet Simpson | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...manufacturer who needs working capital to build up an inventory of seasonal goods, Talcott will advance the money. Biggest item is the purchase of accounts receivable, providing a manufacturer with immediate cash for goods he sold on credit. Talcott has a tremendous credit department, so that a client, if he wants, may dispense with his own credit department entirely. Sometimes Talcott will merely assume the credit risk without advancing cash, receiving a fee for this service. The firm factors about 400 concerns, makes a point of assigning two officers with the authority to make decisions to each account, insisting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Factors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Married. Actress Margaret Garland Sullavan, 25, onetime wife of Actor Henry Fonda; and Leland Hayward, Manhattan theatre & cinema agent (chief client: Katharine Hepburn) ; in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years. No one in Murfreesboro could recall a similar case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Black Justice | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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