Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accused Judge Charles Edgar Woodward of repeatedly naming as attorney to receivers the law firm of Loucks, Eckert & Peterson by which the judge's son Harold Woodward was employed. The Committee found that in December...
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, he was educated in public schools, took a degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a few years in Europe he started working in Manhattan under the late, lush Stanford White in his famed firm, McKim, Mead & White. His first job was a pedestal for a St. Gaudens statue. A year later he opened his own office in St. Paul...
...most spectacular, publicity-wise lawyer to be found in Washington, dark, bombastic Ferdinand Pecora, investigator for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee. Hearst is represented by his resident counsel in Washington, distinguished Wilton John Lambert. United Features, a keenly interested spectator, called in the Scripps-Howard counsel, the law firm of Newton Diehl Baker, who, as Secretary of War, was General MacArthur's onetime chief. Numerous Senators, Representatives and one former Ambassador offered their legal services free to Pearson & Allen. Dozens of Washington newshawks were ready to swear that they had found the Chief of Staff "swaggering...
Despite the fact that Harvard headed the list of qualifiers, Stanford's Cardinals last night remained a firm favorite to capture the meet and thus complete a 10-year hold on the title by the Pacific coast. One of the most unusual upsets was the dramatic failure of Sam Klopstock, Stanford's favorite in the high hurdles and the defeat of Dick Hardy of Cornell, defending champion in the 100-metre dash...
...working compact with them so long as he could retain unhampered control of his own properties. We see, then, the spectacle of a Nazi supporter on the one hand breathing fire against France, and on the other sitting down on terms of thorough understanding with the principal armament firm that represented the implacable political enemy of his country...