Word: client
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freudian interpretation of personality structure; e.g., the Rorschach inkblot tests may reveal hidden hostilities which would make a career as a sales man unprofitable, or dependency yearnings which would bar promotion as a foreman or executive. A.firm of consultants is doing big business providing psychologists to industry. Its biggest client: Chicago's case-hardened Inland Steel Co., which employs 15 psychologists part-time to help in picking new employees and to improve old hands for promotion...
...recruits its "experts" through want ads, and woos worried businessmen with a pitch something like this: "We'll come in and tell you what's wrong with your business for $100." Once in, May's "actioneers" get to work "opening the job," and sell the client-who falls into one of 49 types ("Penny Pincher, Stone Face, the Playboy, the Boor, the Weakling")-a long service which often costs thousands...
...have in my files numerous newspaper clippings reporting that in public addresses I made over the period 1935-1941, I repeatedly said that I was not a fascist or, even, a defender of fascism. A lawyer defending a person on trial under a criminal indictment can defend his client without being smeared as a defender or an advocate of crime--even after the client has been found guilty. There could be no due process of law in criminal trials if it were otherwise...
Laird is a trial lawyer who has argued "many, many" cases of first degree murder charges and has had only one client hanged. Laird's parents left West Virginia for Keswick, Calif., where he was born. They died when he was five; Laird returned to Fayette County to be reared by his grandmother, aunt and uncle. The uncle, Dr. William R. Laird, adopted him. He attended Greenbrier Military School, King College in Bristol, Tenn., and West Virginia University, where he received a law degree in 1944 and made friends with a fellow student, Bill Marland. Marland...
...prided himself on his day-or-night availability. Once a phone call routed him from bed at3 a.m. "Sammy," said a client, "I'm in a poker game. All my money's in the pot, and I want to call this guy. Will you back me on this hand...