Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end and ducked into waiting automobiles. Following them came the nation's current No. 1 criminal lawyer, smiling, muscular Samuel Simon Liebowitz, 43, who four years ago promised thousands of howling, cheering Negroes in Manhattan's dark Harlem: "We'll march those Scottsboro boys up Lenox Avenue...
...with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was the rouged face of a white female named Victoria Price, 22, whose insistent tale of a nine-Negro rape in an Alabama freight car in March 1931 had made the Scottsboro Case an enduring stink in the annals of Alabama law (TIME, April...
...strikes, rising labor costs and higher commodity prices would make for slimmer profits. That fear was by no means without foundation but it was exaggerated, as usual, in the stock-market's behavior. Stock prices have regained on the average about two-thirds of all ground lost between March and June. And by last week enough corporations had reported earnings for the first half of 1937 to indicate clearly that Big Business was still profitable...
...Pittsburgh United matter, co-operation came to an end last March when the date of redemption rolled around and the company still made no move to redeem its preferred stock. Far from paying dividends, it had lost $63,879 in 1935, $89,257 in 1936. By March ist, though U. S. Steel common had risen from a 1936 low of $46 to around $113, Pittsburgh United's equity was still nearly $4,000,000 short of its original value of $16,000,000. Since Big Steel was expected to resume payments on its common within a year, Pittsburgh United...
Finding that he had increased the estate's working capital from $12,920,000 to $17,387,000 in the 26 years of his trusteeship the court refused in March 1931 to remove him as trustee. Six weeks later, when the special audit was completed, Joseph resigned voluntarily. Lawyers' fees for the eight-year quarrel were $1,012,500. Joseph died in 1932. He caught cold watching horse races at New Orleans, insisted on returning to the track blanketed in a wheelchair, took pneumonia. His estate totalled approximately $1,000,000. Sister Mary died in 1906, with...