Word: dorff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens-dorff-Pouilly and Pallavicini ("Imperial Highness!"); and the new arrival's cousin, the Archduke Anton and his wife Princess Ileana of Rumania. For it was the best beloved of the archdukes, old Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernard Felix Maria, grand master of the Teutonic Order, chevalier of the Orders of the Golden Fleece...
...extricate himself from such a simple episode. Banker Mitchell had need of no ordinary lawyer. He had already advised with such famed firms as Cravath, Degers-dorff, Swaine & Wood and Davis. Polk. Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff...