Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more tough-minded and lawyerlike than his critics credit. From his point of view, the firm of Corcoran & Cohen started out to do a job for a client -the President of the United States. If remaking the Democratic Party is part of that job, Partner Corcoran is well up to learning and playing politics tooth & nail...
...firm's long-range objective is to put through and then defend the Client's social legislation. Since they wrote a lot of it, it is natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with...
...crack down for votes. Many a Congressman sensed that these high-powered lobbyists for the President had a low opinion of most U. S. politicians. More shocking to traditional statesmen-especially to old-line, locally intrenched Democrats-was the conception of a Liberal party which Corcoran & Cohen helped Client Roosevelt to rationalize...
...Ellis Colvin. 46. WTA client on duty in a gravel pit at Sycamore, Ill., last week came the industrial accident which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation...