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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN O'CONNOR, member of Congress for over 15 years and chairman of the Rules Committee for four years, will resume the active general practice of law in Washington, D. C. and New York City, specializing as trial and appeal counsel and in practice before Government departments and commissions and in advising as to legislative matters. Associated with him will be JAMES P. DULLIGAN, former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, KERMIT F. KIP and J. DANIEL DOUGHERTY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Lobbyist | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week Lloyd Wilson came back at the Bureau. Not to save $6.18 (filing an appeal cost him $10) but to establish a point that "could mean a big saving for a lot of people," he argued that the law recognizes unborn children as living human beings in many other instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Multiplication and Deduction | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Real-estate lawyers had never questioned a "fee" ranging from 50? to $1.25 which they paid to clerks in the City Controller's office for filing various documents required by law. The fees, entirely extralegal, went into a small tin cashbox and were divided among the Controller's staff from time to time. Three clerks, whose terms of city service and "fee" collecting were 24, 34 and 45 years, were suspended, protesting indignantly at an affront to a custom older than the memory of politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Antique | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Luis Diez may herself be interned, but the difficulty in this procedure would be that the British, sticklers for international sea law, have no strict legal right to intern a Loyalist ship because: 1) they have not formally recognized the Spanish War as other than a civil conflict; 2) they still recognize the Loyalists as the "friendly," legal Government of Spain; 3) they have not granted belligerent rights to Generalissimo Franco. Out weighing these objections, however, might easily be the consideration that a third attempt of the José Luis Diez to run for safety would again endanger British life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Seven Against One | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: I Loathe Dictators | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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