Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake Bird, a 46-year-old convicted Negro ax murderer, learned that his lawyer, J. W. Selden of Tacoma, Wash., had died. Selden was the fifth man connected with Bird's trial to die in the eleven months since the killer had predicted: "All the guys who had anything to do with this case are going before I do." Like all the others involved-the judge, an undersheriff, a police lieutenant and the clerk of court-Selden died of a heart attack...
Following the Girard tradition, Smith plans no quick changes. "I am a lawyer," said he, "stepping into a new field." As for Girard's policy, that was best stated by retiring President Gowen, who said: "The real meaning of conservative is to 'preserve that which is worthwhile...
...from Colorado has no more humor than a lawyer's shingle, but it has suspense and some exciting shots of fist fights and burning houses. All in all, it is a better than average horse opera...
Until 1946 (he died of coronary thrombosis four months ago, the day the proofs of his book came from the printer), Elmer Lincoln Irey was coordinator of all Treasury law-enforcement units. He wasn't a lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...
...Eaton's Otis & Co. SEC had little choice. It had hoped to prove that Otis & Co. had fraudulently wriggled out of a deal to underwrite a $10 million issue of Kaiser-Frazer stock. But the only way it could do so.was by proving that Otis & Co. had put Lawyer James Masterson up to filing the suit against K-F which had enabled Otis to call off the deal. Last month, a U.S. district court ruled that Eaton's lawyers did not have to testify in the matter. SEC decided to go ahead with a revocation hearing anyway...