Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular "Church" Mehard was accused of settling damage claims against the city out of court, taking $11,299 m kickbacks from litigants' attorneys. During his first month in office, the city paid out $16,-981.75 in such settlements; during his last, $131)990. Stumpy Lawyer Morris Levy (also indicted) testified that he paid Churchill Mehard $1,300 to settle favorably one case. "He never paid me one dime in this or any other case," cried Churchill Mehard. The jury believed Morris Levy...
...Earl Warren, who was after Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was secretary to Governor Frank Finley Merriam until that aging (73) Republican was deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, with a story that Mark Megladdery had taken...
...where examiners were going over the papers of an absconding bank president in Chicago. "He just walked in, laid his stick and gloves on the board table and said, 'Well, let us proceed to business, gentlemen,' and somehow the examiners thought he was the banker's lawyer and the lawyers thought he was an examiner until he got up to catch an edition. Someone then asked him, 'And whom do you represent?' 'Hearst's Chicago American,' my old man said and bowed...
...Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week from the owner of a sorer toe came a loud squeal...
...Chicago & North Western Railway Co. made its counsel, methodical Fred Wesley Sargent, its president and operating head. Last week, 63 and ailing, lawyer-railroader-gentleman Farmer Sargent resigned, having in 14 years seen the North Western win seven national rewards for safe operation...