Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes, he informed a badgering prosecutor: "All I have now is a few dollars in cash...
Popular "Church" Mehard was accused of settling damage claims against the city out of court, taking $11,299 m kickbacks from litigants' attorneys. During his first month in office, the city paid out $16,-981.75 in such settlements; during his last, $131)990. Stumpy Lawyer Morris Levy (also indicted) testified that he paid Churchill Mehard $1,300 to settle favorably one case. "He never paid me one dime in this or any other case," cried Churchill Mehard. The jury believed Morris Levy...
...Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was secretary to Governor Frank Finley Merriam until that aging (73) Republican was deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, with a story that Mark Megladdery had taken a $1,250 bribe...
...Anti-union employers got their great awakening only last April when Apex won its verdict for $711,000 in triple damages against Branch 1 of C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers (TIME, April 10). The Apex strike was a sitdown, which the U. S. Supreme Court has declared illegal. If suits like Tom Girdler's can extend the anti-trust laws to cover other strikes (which are legal in principle) Labor will have suffered a blow, all but undoing such pro-Labor legislation as the Wagner Act. Last week in appealing the Apex verdict...
...Worried court physicians found that she had escaped with bruises and a bumped eye. Among the scores of bouquets and sympathetic messages from Britain's great was a modest bunch of irises and narcissuses with a note attached: With best wishes for a speedy recovery...