Word: lardner
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...Richard Wallace knows something about Schapiro and believes she will take bold action. Wallace worked at Schapiro's FINRA for the last 12 years, and before that was an enforcement prosecutor at the SEC. Wallace is now partner at the law firm Foley & Lardner, chief counsel of its financial industry regulatory authority practice. "Within a few months of coming on board at FINRA, Mary brought charges against Banker's Trust Securities," Wallace says. "She jumped right in, she beefed up enforcement, and wasn't afraid at all to take on powerful interests. She was an enforcement officer once, and enforcement...
...airlines or steel, when you look at the automobile industry and the fact that the whole supplier base is connected - to Ford, Chrysler, Toyota - it will have a ripple effect on the entire industry," says Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, a bankruptcy expert at the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner, a law firm that represents some GM suppliers...
...sight of acres of land naturally contoured, unobstructed by sport shops, that inspires the new intrepid golf tourists to lug their clubs across oceans. "You can't make something spectacular like that with a bulldozer," says Mike Lardner, a WWG co-president. "These are the kinds of courses that are basically designed...
...when they expanded the major leagues from 16 teams to 26? Or the schedule from 154 games to 162? (Did Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs by hitting 61--but in eight extra games?) Babe Ruth--bah! Some truly venerable curmudgeons share Ring Lardner's view that they really ruined the game when they introduced the jackrabbit ball during the Babe's heyday to make home runs easier...
...newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown up poor...