Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official explanation has yet been issued for the mighty miscalculation of either the bank or the Law School. Rumors say that an anonymous clerk has always wanted to be a lawyer. Others note that New Brunswick has never been famous for 20-20 vision...
...went off to Europe, met a fellow tourist, blonde Margery Pepperell Kimball from Massachusetts. Their romance bloomed. They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
Diligent Man. As his career waxed, the up-&-coming lawyer began to take an interest in the St. Louis Symphony Society, thus met James K. Vardaman, an old friend of Politician Harry Truman. When "Jake" Vardaman went into the Navy, he left the legal end of his business in Clifford's hands. The Vardaman Shoe Co. was being liquidated. Clifford tied up the loose ends...
...Barnsdall Jr., a lawyer of Buffalo, lent a policeman a pencil to write, out a parking ticket, later got off on the ground that the ticket was not written in ink or indelible pencil...
...made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...