Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling novel, its hero is a U. S. oil salesman in China, and its message, only mildly impaired by a self-contradictory sequence timidly tacked to the story's end, is one that might make an attendant in a highway service station think twice before he scrubs a client's windshield...
...damages on twelve counts of alleged libel. The jury found no libel, awarded $1 punitive damages. Individual jurors later explained that they wanted to save their fellow townsman the costs of the trial. Their zeal was misdirected, since Plaintiff Baugh was obliged to pay the costs anyway. Lawyer Neylan & Client Hearst considered disposal of a $225.000 suit for $1 net a distinct victory...
...Neylan's influence with Hearst that he is reputed to have persuaded the publisher in 1932 that Franklin Roosevelt was a satisfactory choice for the Democratic nomination, thus starting the break from Garner which put the President across (TIME, July 11, 1932). But many a would-be Neylan client would be surprised to learn that the real reason his business was refused was that Neylan suspected him of trying to buy Hearst influence. At every opportunity he insists that anyone who claims an ability to deliver Hearst is a faker...
Lawyer Neylan has a real affection for his client, and Hearst often sneaks up on this blindly sentimental side when debates between them become warm. Dopesters predict that when the aging publisher dies, Jack Neylan will head the regency that tells Hearst's sons and Hearst's editors what to do. Yet some of his warmest admirers regret the Hearst connection, feel that Neylan's own capacities would have carried him farther, less equivocally...
...surplus, Budgeteer Neylan had to borrow $1,000 to move his family back to San Francisco where he began practicing law. His first partner was Aaron Sapiro, who silenced Henry Ford's attacks on Jews. After a year he opened his own office, got as his first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan in the next 20 years. Emotional, intelligent, intuitive rather than scholarly, he is a spectacular courtroom performer. Towering, grey...