Word: legale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest in this Congressional investigation was the manner in which his name had been bandied about by the Cuban Sugar Lobby, directed by Herbert Conrad Lakin. Lobbyist Lakin had hired as the Lobby's Lawyer Edwin Paul Shattuck, because Mr. Shattuck was a Hoover friend, had done legal work for the President, such as drawing leases. This connection Lobbyist Lakin had so magnified in widely scattered letters as to create the impression that President Hoover was cooperating with the sugar lobby. Excerpts from the letters of Lobbyist Lakin...
Last week Herr Bosch practically reversed the court's settlement, not by any legal action but by an agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will...
...meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended at the last session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist...
...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
...citizens have been convinced that they are heirs to large British estates ?the buccaneering gold of Sir Francis Drake, the "Blake millions," the "Townley estate" et al. To get these fortunes out of "Chancery," the "heirs" were duped into paying the racketeers thousands of dollars in "legal fees." Letters from some 300 would-be inheritors have swamped the U. S. Consulate in London...