Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former student of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, McCloy jokes over the fact that the Justice did not remember him at Harvard: "He kept all the smart boys in the front row." McCloy headed for the big law firms of Wall Street. First with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, later with Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, he and other fledgling "clerks" read and studied morning & night, drafting contracts, charters and all the other documents of corporate and financial...
...Cravath's clients, Bethlehem Steel, had a stake in the Black Tom case, then being argued before the International Court at The Hague. McCloy, who on his wedding day in 1930 had sailed to take over Cravath's Paris office, went to observe the Hague proceedings and came away fascinated. He devoted the better part of his next ten years to the case, one of the most celebrated in modern international...
...U.S.C.'s Jeff Cravath, Columbia's Lou Little, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, Georgia's Wally Butts, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, S.M.U.'s Matty Bell...
...Jeff Cravath has helped by calling him "the best end U.S.C. ever...
When Jones took over in 1926, Fisk had only 531 college students, a debt of $216,000 and a ramshackle look. He begged money from whites and Negroes (the angels ranged from Lawyer Paul D. Cravath and Financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. to old washerwomen who scraped up $1 apiece). Jones's first purchase, over everybody else's objections, was an expensive power lawnmower. His explanation: "If Fisk is going to die, it will die with its face shaved...