Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested on suspicion of grand larceny, Eric Pinker appeared in a police lineup, jaunty in sack suit and bowler, to plead not guilty, to be confronted by "indications" that Romancer Oppenheim was not his only dissatisfied client. Finding that he had a good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other...
...violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...
...spell, then last week wrote the Tribune an angry letter demanding "to know immediately if the cartoonist has been approached by representatives of somebody interested in injuring the bus business. . . . Needless to say . . ." said Mr. McCabe with needless indirection, "it may be quite difficult for us to persuade [our clients] that any further advertising should be placed." To Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Free dom of the Press") McCormick's news paper only one reply was possible. The Tribune made it in an editorial that bore the imprint of the Colonel's own choleric style. Snapped the "World...
...Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises $232,900 out of $250,000 lent through Lawyer Louis S. Levy to Judge Manton's partner by Lord & Thomas (advertising) whose client (and Levy's) was American Tobacco Co., for whom Judge Manton wrote the winning opinion in a $10,000,000 stockholder suit...
...deference to the dignity of the Supreme Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...