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MacLachlan, who retired in 1960, was an authority on bankruptcy and creditor's rights and was one of the original members of the National Bankruptcy Conference whose recommendations were embodied in the Chandler Act of 1938. He also wrote two books on creditor's rights, but is perhaps most fondly remembered as a great athlete...
...Laws grind the poor," observed Oliver Goldsmith in the 18th century, and little has happened since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
...hitch to insuring a judge is that big money probably has to ride on his staying alive. A would-be beneficiary can insure another person's life only if he holds an "insurable interest" or a substantial financial stake in that person's survival. A creditor can thus insure a debtor, an employer a key employee. So why not insure the litigant's "amen" when the bailiff cries, "God save this honorable court...
...stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses, only to learn the high cost of cuckoldry...
...settled back to wait. Sure enough, the freeze was a fluke. The ice melted overnight, and Sage sailed off for New York where he made a $50,000 killing. At 24, he operated a fleet of riverboats and a private moneylending business, was a bank director, city councilman, and creditor to two of New York's biggest Whigs: Editor Thurlow Weed and Governor William H. Seward...