Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...
...Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp's furniture to Cleveland; 5) stole $500 which supposedly was to pay a Bund lawyer; 6) forged Bund records in order to cover his tracks. Maximum penalty: 50 years in prison...
...members of the crew, James Talcott is now a New York merchant; Henry Meyer and Laurence Curtis are Boston lawyers; Henry and John Middendorf are Baltimore financiers; David Morgan is a New York financier; Charles Lund in a Boston physician; and Henry Kreger is a Cleveland lawyer...
...sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro...
...Promptly SEC raised an astonished eyebrow. Who, it asked was this mysterious person and what service had he performed for A. G. & E. to earn such a fat fee? Last week A. G. & E. Vice President Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington. No, Mr. Burroughs stoutly declared, Ben Grey was not a lobbyist...