Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Otis B. Driftwood, social manager of Mrs. Claypool, he has advised his client to further her social aspirations by sponsoring an opera company. Mrs. Claypool gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course...
...Institute by buying a fellowship for a minimum of about $10,000 of which some 20% goes to the Institute for overhead, the rest to the researcher for salary and equipment. Most but not all of the Institute's output is highly specialized of interest mainly to the client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered it was a potent water-softener. The Mellon Institute investigated possible uses. Now the onetime curiosity is used in vast quantities by textile mills and laundries as a soap-saver...
...Insurance Man" was the title of a fond article once written by Will Rogers. Client Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers...
...holding American States bonds. Until he was hastily summoned from his dental office to meet Lawyer Davis in court, Dentist Lautenbach had never seen his eminent attorney. "I submit," said Mr. Davis, when challenged by the New Dealers, "that I do not have to have social relations with my client to defend his interests...
...himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers had for the first time been able to put their case in full before the California Supreme Court. Acting on a suggestion from the U. S. Supreme Court when it refused to free their client, last winter, they were now asking California's highest bench, through a referee, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony with the knowledge of the prosecution. Granting of such a writ would be tantamount to acquittal...