Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cracked down, that he must post $5,000 bail or go to jail. To jail he goes; after 18 days, out on bail he comes. Then to his aid go eminent volunteer counsel-David Aiken Reed and John William Davis-who personally re-enact their conferences with their client following his conviction in Federal Court (TIME, Dec. 17). And The March of Time camera takes the Perkins case to the doorstep of the Supreme Court...
Last October one of the four, Brooke Alexander, had the idea of creating a high-pressure organization to mould campus opinion for national advertisers. To help him he took in three classmates, John Harlow, Robert Burrows and Reo Kelly. First problem was to get a client. They sold the idea to Philip Morris & Co. The next was to build the organization. In 39 Eastern colleges they acquired agents, all of them prominent students and most of them on college papers...
Tactics used by Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly to persuade the jury not to send his client to the electric chair: ¶ He was able to shoot holes through shaky old Witness Hochmuth's story, causing him to give conflicting accounts as to whether or not he had discussed his testimony with New Jersey officials...
Thereupon, Counsel Reilly began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
Lawyer Reilly has often and bitterly protested about the manner of Hauptmann's incarceration, and last week accused the Federal Government of transferring two Department of Justice investigators to the West because they were implicated in trying to beat a confession out of his client. The Department of Justice promptly replied that the agents, if needed, would be back at Flemington in time for the trial...