Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trust business and estate administration, will do commercial banking (although it accepts checking accounts), will vend no securities. "Continuity of independence and policies, Specialization and Research" are the three characteristics it calls distinguishing. To Root, Clark & Buckner and to Scudder, Stevens & Clark, the bank will be a big client, also one to whom they can send much business. Chairman of Fiduciary Trust which starts business with $1,000,000 capital, is Pierre Jay, great-great-grandson of the great John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Banker Jay is neat, cordial, mentally meticulous He went to Groton...
...commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels) to the police for hanging. The Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However distressing it may be when a client comes to his lawyer and confesses to being implicated in a murder, the lawyer's situation becomes even more painful when he is asked to defend another person (Richard Arlen) unjustly accused of the same crime. To accept this case would be to endanger his first client and therefore
...unethical, even though the lawyer's fiancee begs him to do it. His fiancee does not know that by responding to her entreaties the lawyer would imperil her brother, who is the guilty client. This highly improbable quandary was deemed suitable for the transformation of Charles ("Buddy") Rogers from a wildly popular juvenile of early talkies into a somewhat hollow-eyed young character actor who does not find forbiddingly incongruous a role in which he is definitely connected with a crime and finally given a jail sentence...
When Veterinary White prepared to carry out his client's orders, Los Angeles stirred with sharp protest. The evening Herald launched a crusade to save the animals. A Mrs. Nancy T. White of Manhattan, visiting in Los Angeles, hired an attorney, who obtained a writ to prevent the execution. A date was set for the trial before Judge J. Walter Hanby of Superior Court in Los Angeles County. He received thousands of letters and telegrams from all over the land, even from Europe. The attorney received so many telephone calls that he had to install a second trunk line...
Vainly did his attorneys plead for clemency, argue that their client was physically weak, that he lacked the mental calibre for the office of Congressman. U. S. Judge Charles E. Woodward, deaf to entreaties, fined Bribee Rowbottom $2,000, sentenced him to a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary.* Said Judge Woodward to Rowbottom before the bar: "You have betrayed your constituents and cheapened public office. The Court cannot condone the flagrant and cynical barter and sale of public offices. The sentence must be of such nature as to deter other Congressmen from such practices...