Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into self-respect...
Harland B. Newton, Parkhurst's defense counsel, stressed to an attentive court of the rehabilitative possibilities of his client, and managed to slice off six months to a year from the demands of District Attorney George Thompson, who sought a penalty of three to five years...
...Cost Exodus. Like most modern architects (who think of houses not as just places to live but as "machines for living"), Neutra tailors houses to his clients. But he takes it on himself to decide what is best for them, carefully explains to those who come with prepared floor plans that he is "more interested in the plan of your life." He requires all adults in a client's family to detail their actions for a week-their sleeping habits, the friends they see, etc. As a result, Neutra-designed houses are likely to be more livable than they...
Harland B. Newton, taking charge of defense, declined comment on his intentions, but said that if his client went nolo contendere in the proceedings, the case would go directly to the Federal Grand Jury for speedy indictment...
Upon assuming the defense brief, at the request of Irving B. Parkhurst, business manager of the University, and the accused's father, Newton barred Parkhurst from any communication with the newspapers, announcing that what his client had to say would be told only to his jury...