Word: isidore
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...water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained or a penny lost." His client, Isidor Kresel. a lawyer who was also a past master of trial technique, smiled...
This was more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries...
...Isidor Kresel there was a more important question involved. Once during the trial when the prosecutor fired questions so fast that he had no time to amplify his answers, Kresel had started from the witness chair with tears in his eyes. "Give me a chance. I'm fighting for my life,'' he almost sobbed...
Mister Percy-Only one of Lazarus Straus's three sons stayed with Macy's- Isidor. Nathan branched out for himself. Oscar was thrice Minister to Turkey and Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor-first Jew to sit in the Cabinet. It was Isidor's three sons who pushed Macy's sales to nearly $100,000,000 in 1929 and held them to $80,000,000 last year. The eldest grandson, Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve...
...fight against the "stop-loss" provision of the code. Brother Percy has the sage counsel of Brother Jesse Isidor, who returned to the U. S. for an. operation last month...