Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician but not a brilliant executive, 71-year-old Secretary Roper contributed to the New Deal more than comic relief...
Interim Senator Alexander Grant Barry (Rep.) from Oregon spent about as much money getting elected as he will be paid for serving ($1,511.12, plus $1,818 for five clerks' salaries and $18.75 for stationery). A Portland lawyer and one-time State Liquor Commissioner, Senator Barry worries more about his girth than a Senator ought to. His successor, full-time Senator Rufus C. Holman, will be the fourth Senator in the seat within eleven months...
...Gordon Grand is a retired lawyer. His most successful Derrydale book was inspired by a visiting English sportsman who told of luring rats to a baited brushpile, potting them as terriers chased them...
Chapter 2. In Manhattan that evening Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, a McKesson & Robbins director, was called on the telephone by the company's treasurer, Julian F. Thompson, and told about the receivership. Mr. Cummings thereupon turned amateur detective. He tipped off another director. Partner Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs, who is a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Exchange suspended trading in McKesson & Robbins next morning...
...Student Charles A. Mulligan Jr. was notified that he had passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...