Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Chaplin by his long-awaited blood test proved that he could not have been the father of Joan Berry's four-months-old daughter. Miss Berry went into hysterics. Said her lawyer, John J. Irwin: "I believed all along that my client was telling the truth." Next day he suggested that Chaplin might have tampered with his blood. Experts immediately declared such a dodge impossible. Lawyer Irwin resigned. U.S. Attorney Carr continued his prosecution of Chaplin. Asked whether Joan might have to go to work now that she was cut off from Chaplin support, her mother answered...
...wilted under the sultry Syrian sun and had to be replaced. Arab street addresses were virtually nonexistent. Once the interviewer located his quarry, however, traditional Arab hospitality and their delight in plain conversation made it difficult to get the interview over with quickly. One pollster got away from his client only after absorbing quantities of black coffee and lemonade and promising to accept one of the family's prize black kittens as a token of affection...
...Purdy-Rouse plan was simple. A dunned, garnisheed, bill-racked client turned his paycheck over to their Credit Adjustment Co. or had his employer mail it to them. Then he signed a pledge not to contract any more debts without C.A.C. approval, and agreed to live on what it doled out. C.A.C. then prorated the rest of the client's pay among creditors...
...instance, a client who has been climbing out of debt steadily may tele phone Purdy & Rouse, to ask whether he can buy a living-room suite, or a suit of clothes. The firm looks over his affairs and his needs, tells him yes or no. For the service, C.A.C. charges a small fee (averaging about $4 monthly), staves off garnishments and judgments, does the worrying...
Their first client, a backsliding policeman who once owed well over a year's salary and was about to lose his job, paid off his last nickel. For services to him - and up wards of 700 clients - Purdy & Rouse netted about $15,000 last year. Although the system is no sure cure for spendthrifts, Purdy & Rouse are pleased that 75% of those who take the cure, stay cured. Why debtors come to C.A.C. instead of trying to puzzle their way out of their tangles is simply explained by Purdy: "It's always easier to take someone else...