Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyrus Eaton. During the four-month investigation of his ole in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s $10 million underwriting fiasco (TIME, May 24), Eaton had tried to slow up SEC by ridiculing, cajoling, pleading and threatening, had finally gone into a clinch with a legal gimmick involving lawyer-client privilege. Last week SEC decided to try for a knockout. It ordered a hearing next month to decide whether Eaton's Otis & Co. should be allowed to stay in business...
Thanks to four on-the-spot darkrooms and an Acme-developed machine called the Trans-Ceiver, only 23 minutes elapsed from the time a photographer shot a picture in the hall until Acme transmitted it to a newspaper client's office anywhere in the U.S. When the Secret Service locked the Convention Hall doors after President Truman arrived, incidentally trapping A.P. and I.N.P. messengers, Acme's margin of half an hour on the other services jumped temporarily to an hour...
Before the balloting, everybody had his say. Urged the board minority: "The issue . . . is whether the Guild, to which [Buchanan] has paid his dues, will represent his interests . . . just as a lawyer represents a client with whom he may disagree." Said the majority report: "The contract provides that there shall be no discharge except for just & sufficient cause . . . We believe membership in the Communist Party to be such a cause . . . We do not feel that we can require a newspaper to retain a reporter who no longer has value." It wasn't just a case of which-party...
...client? Hull refused to name him. So did Hull's partner, Marvin C. Harrison, until SEC hauled them up before a federal judge in Detroit. He ordered them to answer or risk jail for contempt of court. Unhappy Lawyer Harrison then named the mysterious client: it was Cyrus Eaton...
...Another client, a Radcliffe student of dubious mental powers, entered complaint against several national magazines for using her picture on their covers without her permission. As evidence, the near-sighted girl displayed photographs of Lana Turner and Jean Tierney in poses of semi nudity. The law students were hard pressed for authoritative legal precedence in the case, but again succeeded in satisfying the plaintive without resorting to court procedure...