Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
...Thomas E. Dewey in unprecedented style. Although the State's Attorney General had the case well in hand. Prosecutor Dewey secretly called before his Grand Jury Dick Whitney's sister-in-law while he himself queried Mrs. Whitney. Then Prosecutor Dewey suddenly snatched Dick Whitney from under Lawyer Ambrose V. McCall's astounded nose with an indictment charging that Richard Whitney had appropriated another $105,000 in securities from the trust fund left by his father-in-law to Mrs. Whitney and her sister (Harvard University and St. Paul's School are residuary legatees). Richard Whitney...
...next day, while Dick Whitney was consulting his lawyer - Charles Henry Tuttle, 1930 G. O. P. candidate for Governor of New York-the Attorney General's office did make a grab for his body. Commodore William A. Stewart of the Yacht Club wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second...
Harriet Monroe was apparently the only person in Chicago who could have made such an attempt. Born there in 1860, she always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats to her milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal...