Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Insull venture was formally chartered by the State of Illinois as Affiliated Broadcasting Co. with paid-in capital of $100,000. Floyd E. Thompson, the lawyer who obtained Mr. Insulls acquittal on fraud charges in connection with the fall of Middle West Utilities, explained that his client was only a "hired president." "He will act also as general manager," said Lawyer Thompson. "He is at work now completing the organization, gathering assistants together." Some 15 local radio stations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have already been signed up. Mainspring of the Insull chain is Ota Gygi...
...were offered in 1921. The bonds mature next summer and like the good manager he is. President William P. Kenney started months ago to lay plans for meeting them. It is the biggest railroad maturity of 1936. Mr. Kenney's 8,300-mile system has been a good client of the House of Morgan and George Fisher Baker's First National Bank since the old Hill days...
...cello from one S. N. Rosenthal, a Manhattan dealer who had offered to sell it for $4,000. Dealer Rosenthal had bought it for $600 from a violinist. The fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...
...friendly but contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine Justices this week entered their courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed...
...Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just before the War he began putting up small banks in the Corn Belt. They remain among the finest things from his drafting board. The one at Sidney, Ohio, erected in 1917, had airconditioning...