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...Federal Courts of the Southern District of New York. Representative Celler of New York, setting out to prove this "monopoly," found that since its appointment Irving Trust has paid $3,486,000 in legal fees to 361 lawyers for handling 4,419 bankruptcy cases, that the firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood got most ($409,000 for handling eleven cases) ; that four firms got over $1,000,000 of the total; that the bank holds $21,000,000 deposits for bankrupts in liquidation. Irving Trust as trustee for certain bankrupts filed claims of $778,000,000 against itself as trustee...
...laymen who stuff themselves into full dress and go to sit with their wives at grand opera or concerts have such intellectual honesty and humility as patriarchal Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath exhibited last winter. Lawyer Cravath is not "musical"' and, with the practical candor of Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat, he admits it. He felt that, as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he should understand more about what he sits and listens to. So all last winter he took lessons in appreciation from Pianist Olga Samaroff". So did 40 Junior League girls who in a few months lost...
...school. He wanted her to teach his daughter Elizabeth enough music so that she would be interested when she went with him to the opera. Later Mme Samaroff experimented with her friends, Mrs. Theodore Steinway and Mrs. Otto Kahn-"guinea pigs" she calls them-who with Lawyer Cravath and the Junior League girls are booming the new school...
...landscape painter that Edward Bruce was taken to London with the U. S. Delegation. Onetime associate of the great Manhattan law firm of Cravath. de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, he set up an independent practice in the Philippines, bought and operated the Manila Times, was retained by many a U. S. firm, did much business in China. His special knowledge of silver and the monetary problems of the Orient accounted for his official if not his artistic presence in London...
...Philadelphia last week a new investigating agency sponsored by the American Foundation. It was called the Committee on Russian-American Relations and its membership included such potent figures as Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament, whose son Corliss is a near-Communist; Harvard Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large; Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School, a liberal of the first water; Engineer Hugh L. Cooper who built the Dnieprostroy Dam for U. S. S. R. Modestly buried away...