Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true ,that the firm of Davis, Michel, Yaeger & McGinley specializes in appearing for injured railroad workmen. There is a vast difference between the shyster type, who use tricky methods, and the high type of lawyers (and they are too few) who are satisfied to let the lucrative corporation practice go by the boards and fight for justice to the worker...
...whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial work. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Michel has never personally solicited a case in his life. While he may be responsible for the conduct of anyone in behalf of his firm, nevertheless to convey the impression that he is a mere solicitor instead of one of the outstanding lawyers of the State is highly unfair...
...firm of which Mr. Michel is a member has collected millions of dollars from railroads. Clients do not criticize their methods, fairness or honesty. So successful has the firm been that the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have retained them as Regional Counsel in 14 States...
Swearing-mad German seamen on the steamer Vogtland took many times in vain, last week, the name of their employer, H. Vogemann Co. of Hamburg. The, firm had just transferred the Vogtland from German to Panamanian register, informing her crew that the German minimum they had been receiving now could and would be cut 25% under Panamanian law. H. Vogemann Co. will also cut by 9% the number of the crew and will cut 10% from the social insurance provided for the crew. In all, H. Vogemann Co. will save 44% of the Vogtland's present running costs...
Finally the place of half courses should be made firm by the fact that they are often the only means by which intellectual interests may be indulged that happen to run counter to the demands of concentration and distribution requirements. Frequently a student would like to pursue a subject that is unrelated to divisional examinations, and yet feel that it would not warrant a year's study. In cases of this sort the half course may serve admirably as an introduction to a larger field, or may be merely an end in itself...