Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writer Johnston charged that many of Son James's accounts were "twisted" away from other agents by his political potential. Reply: "It has never been suggested to me in any form, directly or indirectly, that I intercede for a client or a prospect in any Government branch. . . . And this has surprised me. . . . And naturally I have never suggested to any client . . .that I might exert political influence in his behalf...
...sparing of Negro Norris last week kept intact the boast of Lawyer Leibowitz that no client of his had ever been executed. Two days later in Manhattan, one Salvatore Gati, 28, was sentenced to die the week of August 15 for murdering a policeman. His lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, was en route to Europe...
...Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.* The Specter begins with Samghim feebly awakened by an interest in a bold, mysterious client, Marina Zotova, who is mixed up in some shady negotiations over the sale of property in the Urals. But soon after they meet in Paris she is murdered, and suspicion of him in his home town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
Soon from behind the closed office door came angry voices, Harry Barck's shout: "That's all there is to it. Next!" But the door did not open. When an assistant and Patrolman Carmody opened it, they found Harry Barck clutching his chest, his last client standing white-faced near the wall. Ironical was the fact that during the interview a postman had delivered an $8 relief check at Joseph Scutellaro's house, more ironical, the weapon with which Joseph Scutellaro, by his own confession, had dealt a mortal wound: the long spike on which Poormaster Barck...