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Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law with offices in the Longley Building, Woonsocket. Like most of the 290,540 Catholics who live in and near Providence he is a French-Canadian. And, like most of Providence's French-Canadians, he gave money in 1925 for a school fund which was to be distributed by the Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, Bishop of the Diocese of Providence. Attorney Daignault and many another donor wanted strictly French-speaking schools. In the schools that Bishop Hickey built, English was spoken, though French was taught. Attorney Daignault...
Hundreds of cases, involving tens of millions of dollars, came into his charge. When Motorman Ford launched his attacks on the Jews (TIME, May 2, 1927 et ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits since Boss William Barnes charged the late great Theodore Roosevelt with tippling. Together with Missouri's Senator Reed and Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll of Manhattan, Lawyer Longley battled the charges of Aaron Sapiro and Herman Bernstein. In the end, Mr. Ford retracted and the cases were settled...
Clean victory for Lawyer Longley was scored in the Mississippi anti-trust cases, when the Ford company was charged with price-fixing and monopoly...
Most recently, Lawyer Longley has been in London, organizing the English Ford corporation, biggest of all automobile corporations established on the other side of the Atlantic, with a stock issue of $35,000,000. It was not Lawyer Longley's fault that Manhattan bankers played a joke on Mr. Ford by buying the stock which Mr. Ford had intended for British ownership...
Last week, friends and admirers of Lawyer Longley read with amazement the following newsflash from Detroit: "The legal department of the Ford Motor Company has been abolished and its entire personnel dismissed as of next pay day." Pressed for explanations, Lawyer Longley grinned. He knew, of course, that the despatch had stated only a half-truth. It was true that the Ford company had abolished its legal department. But Lawyer Longley, as a member of the Detroit firm of Longley & Middleton, remains chief Ford counsel, and with him will be most or all the dozen lawyers who sensationally "lost" their...