Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lambert...
...Vanderbilt, who commanded the Cup-winning Enterprise three years ago, has formed a syndicate to build a new defense yacht, as yet unnamed. The syndicate includes J. Pierpont Morgan, Gerard Barnes Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard...
...Justice Joseph W. Cox presiding; R. E. Lee Goff, clerk. No. 79326. Frank E. Bonner vs. Washington Times Co.; trial resumed and cause given to jury; verdict for plaintiff for $45,000. Attys., John W. Guider, Edmund L. Jones, Frank J. Hogan-William E. Leahy, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman...
...definition of news, the stature of opposing counsel alone should have been enough to make the Washington trial worth at least a half column inside story. Besides potent Lawyer Wilton John Lambert, the Hearst defense included William Edward Leahy, onetime Government prosecutor of the late notorious "Nicky"' Arnstein, more lately defender of Al Capone against the Government. Also Publisher Hearst's closest legal adviser and board chairman, exceedingly able, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan, dropped in on the Washington trial...
...commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during the War. In December 1928 Mr. Catchings made history by launching for his firm...