Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manage employment agencies tend to become critical about jobs. Naturally choosy is greyish, gracious little Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a one-man, unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat...
...That it be made a felony (instead of a misdemeanor) for any person to deprive any WPA client of the benefits of the act for political reasons...
...from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years...
...prison. Taken from Manhattan to a padded cell at Sing Sing, where he turned over $500 to prison guards, Sculptor Irwin said famed Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz had given him the money for pleading guilty to three second-degree murders. Lawyer Leibowitz is proud that he has "never lost a client to the electric chair...
Last week Broadcaster Biow bought for less than $200,000 from Publisher William Randolph Hearst station WINS (Manhattan), announced that he would withdraw from his WNEW presidency and all stock ownership, assume full command of station WINS as soon as FCC approved the license transfer.* Meanwhile, Client Arde Bulova has been reported in the market for a Manhattan radio station...