Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Joseph B. Warner '69, the well known Boston lawyer, will speak in the Peabody Museum at 8 o'clock this evening on "The Ethical and Legal Obligations of Trustees." The meeting, which is under the auspices of the Ethical Society, will be open to all members of the University...
...Lifter discharges his chauffeur, and Wigglesworth applies with success for the position. At this point, Webster Smith, a lawyer, arrives in Tacoma looking for Wigglesworth, whose uncle has recently died leaving no will, and whose fortune accordingly belongs to his nephew...
Wigglesworth, in a heroic resolve to take up a new life, has thrown away his cigarette case, which has his name engraved upon it. This has been found by James Christopher Lovewater, a missionary on his way to Japan. Lovewater meets the lawyer Smith who takes the possession of the cigarette case as proof that the fortune which he has to bestow should go to Lovewater. The latter, now refunded, takes the same ship with the Lifters and Wigglesworth to Japan. Owing to various complications Wigglesworth is arrested by the Marquis Hari Kari, after the party has arrived in Japan...
Potts, R. T., lawyer...
...field where the lawyer could have been of the greatest service to the community, however,--in the solution of the problems of public economy--he has generally asserted his influence on the wrong side. On questions relating to trusts, the municipalization of franchises, the conflict between capital and labor, and the like, the great lawyers have almost invariably tried to influence legislation in favor of wealthy corporations, and against the people. They justify their action on the ground that they are only attempting to present one side of the question, just as in a court of law, and are leaving...