Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Impose stiff penalties on any doctor who unnecessarily or unskillfully performs a major operation (proposed by M. James McGranahan, San Francisco lawyer and chiropractor...
Elected new president of the A. B. A. was dapper Frank J. ("Million-Dollar") Hogan of Washington, "lawyer's lawyer," whose defense clients in suits brought by the Government have included the late Oilman Edward L. ("Teapot Dome") Doheny and Andrew William Mellon.. President Hogan's first act was to ask for a committee to defend citizens, "poor or rich," from invasion of liberties guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights (first ten Constitutional Amendments...
...Manhattan one day last week a 21-year-old cameraman named George Smooke focused his Contax at an apartment-house window, snapped a blurry but reproducible photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...
...disaster in 1923, $7,750,000 for Chinese famine sufferers in 1920-21. But that was back in good times. This year, two Red Cross campaigns for China have fizzled like dead Chinese firecrackers. Nine months ago was set up the National Emergency Committee, under the chairmanship of Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath (Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood), with the aim of raising enough money so that the 13 colleges might continue. Last week, as the aim became a reality and plans for a second drive ($330,000) were announced, Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang wired the Committee: THIS IS A CLEAR...
Hankering after the good old days, but grateful for modern medical advancement, Hertzler's main grievances are against neurotic female patients, most assistant surgeons, meddling parsons, quacks, lawyers (malpractice suits "are dependent on the presence of a lawyer in a state of malnutrition"), believers in mental healing. During a tumor operation, when a patient's friend stood by repeating "You think you see something, but there is nothing there," "Pop" held himself in till he finished, then slammed the gory ten-pound tumor on her feet...