Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosecutor Woodcock opened his case before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan...
Dean of correspondents covering the war is high-strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer, geologist, big-game hunter, animal psychologist, author, cineman, scientist...
...onetime Democratic presidential candidate intervened as the representative of a dentist named Ferd Lautenbach, who had the misfortune to be "the only one around Baltimore" still holding American States bonds. Until he was hastily summoned from his dental office to meet Lawyer Davis in court, Dentist Lautenbach had never seen his eminent attorney. "I submit," said Mr. Davis, when challenged by the New Dealers, "that I do not have to have social relations with my client to defend his interests...
...instigation of the company, Dentist Lautenbach had signed the papers necessary to permit Mr. Davis to participate in the trustees' action. He served without fee. But since he is also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility Act to court-particularly an opportunity in which the constitutional defense will be in the hands, not of the Government, but of lawyers for an investment trust which would prefer to see American States liquidated rather than reorganized...
...TIME, May 20), a team of Oxford Groupers (Buchmanites) lately invaded Denmark. There, with their knack for striking language, they marshaled forces to fight "The Second Battle of Jutland." They made an ally of Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard of Copenhagen, attracted large crowds and converted ("changed"), among others, a dentist, a chiropractor and a Copenhagen tap dancer. The Groupers were making more news last week in Switzerland where a team of 700 arrived to deal "spiritually" with the Ethiopian crisis...