Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, yes, but also a year when all Americans who believe in the possibilities of the human mind for further progress, happiness and common benefit should stand firm and resist the forces of retrogression. President Conant ended his address--one of the best he has yet made--with a declaration which should awaken a virile response both inside and outside of the Harvard brotherhood. --The Boston Herald
...attorney for Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, Mr. Hogan had just argued for a permanent injunction to keep Western Union Telegraph Co.'s Washington office from delivering to Senator Hugo Black's Lobby Investigating Committee all telegrams sent or received by the potent firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Mr. Hogan's argument was that by subpoenaing wholesale all the telegrams sent or received in Washington between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935, the Senate Committee had violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees the people security "in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable...
...Attack, This attempt to revive NRA in one industry was met by its opponents with the same weapons that proved so successful against NRA itself. One weapon was Lawyer Frederick H. Wood, of the portentous Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued for the Schechter Brothers. This time he argued for James Walter Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose...
...most observers, the list of groups and persons whose telegrams had been subpoenaed seemed self-explanatory. It was chiefly composed of utility companies and their lawyers, including the Manhattan firm of John W. Davis. But it also included the American Liberty League, the Crusaders, the Sentinels of the Republic, the National Economy League, the Women's National Republican Club-all more or less openly devoted to turning the New Deal out of office...
...students as Monet and Manet are Pisano, Picasso and Pissarro. Niccola Pisano (1206-80) was a famed sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. Hulking Pablo Picasso, at 54, remains the highest priced of all modernist painters. Camille Pissarro was the French Impressionist who looked like Monet. Last week the firm of Durand-Ruel, which has had almost a monopoly on Impressionist paintings for 50 years, gave at its Manhattan galleries the most complete one-man show of Pissarro's paintings the U. S. has seen...