Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sources for Mrs. Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball), on a tip that it would pay $25 a share...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...
Just before he set out for Mexico last fortnight Lawyer Richberg ostentatiously called on Mr. Roosevelt. When he reached...
Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley has spent much of his life in the southwest with the Choctaw Indians. Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas is part Indian. Therefore Lawyer Hurley, who works for Sinclair and other U. S. oil companies, would seem an excellent go-between in efforts to make Mexico pay up for the $175,000,000 in U. S. oil properties it expropriated last year...
...Since Lawyer Richberg stepped down from NRA in 1935, he has been little heard of. But he has been so well remembered by Transamerica Corp., Ford, American Rolling Mill, and other great corporations that he probably pockets a cool half million a year from his law business. The firm of Davies, Richberg, Beebe, Busick & Richardson is one of the busiest in the Capital and one of its principal assets is Partner Richberg's erstwhile intimacy with Franklin Roosevelt. Although he still sees the President frequently, Donald Richberg's advice no longer carries much weight, for the anti...