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Solid & Durable. The traffic moves in both directions; big-time lawyers shift readily into high posts in business and government. The late John W. Davis of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl left Wall Street in 1924 to be come the Democratic candidate for President; he lost and went back to lawyering. Several Cabinet officers, Henry L. Stimson and John Foster Dulles among them, have been Wall Street lawyers. Defense Secretary McNamara's newest deputy, Cyrus Vance, came from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. The big outfits, sometimes referred to as "factories" (the term makes the lawyers wince), also supply a sizable...
...would like to be able to entertain everyone who wishes to attend the carnival this year," commented Dartmouth's associate dean Arthur H. Kiendl, Jr. "Unfortunately, facilities in Hanover are extremely limited and it is necessary to restrict our guests to those who have received official guests cards...
...view of the crowded housing conditions and the absolute impossibility of sleeping in a college building without a guest card," Dean Kiendl concluded, "we strongly advise that anyone who has not been invited to Carnival and received a guest card not come...
...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...
...netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with organized pilferage. Asked Counsel Kiendl: "Were there ten tons of steel stolen from that pier?" Replied Devlin: "That was the most remarkable case of pilferage...