Word: lautenbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Democratic presidential candidate intervened as the representative of a dentist named Ferd Lautenbach, who had the misfortune to be "the only one around Baltimore" still holding American States bonds. Until he was hastily summoned from his dental office to meet Lawyer Davis in court, Dentist Lautenbach had never seen his eminent attorney. "I submit," said Mr. Davis, when challenged by the New Dealers, "that I do not have to have social relations with my client to defend his interests...
...instigation of the company, Dentist Lautenbach had signed the papers necessary to permit Mr. Davis to participate in the trustees' action. He served without fee. But since he is also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility Act to court-particularly an opportunity in which the constitutional defense will be in the hands, not of the Government, but of lawyers for an investment trust which would prefer to see American States liquidated rather than reorganized...
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