Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court at St. Louis. That lawyer drank up his expense money and filed no appeal, so Joe was taken to New Orleans to be deported. But Joe's Hot Springs lawyer, one C. Alpheus Stanfield, whose lucrative practice in Arkansas's easy-divorce courts enables him to take "radical" cases for fun, followed...
...With a Westerner long overdue for appointment to the Court, Washington wise money was on three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...
...Bugs" galore harassed the hurry-up ships built with PWA money, were still plaguing the Navy in 1936. For speed and efficiency in an essentially industrial enterprise, Franklin Roosevelt needed a man who believed in a Big Navy, who understood manufacturing, who also believed in the New Deal and who had no ingrained reverence for gold braid. All these qualities he found in Charles Edison...
Replied Defendant Barriobero: "I am an old man and I know my time is near. I may have been guilty of common crimes, but I am not guilty of capital crimes. If I took sums of money through fines, it was to keep up revolutionary appearances among my comrades. I am not an anarchist. I am a radical anticlerical Freemason...
...imprint of the Colonel's own choleric style. Snapped the "World's Greatest Newspaper": "We're going to continue to edit the Tribune and Mr. McCabe is going to continue not to edit it. If Mr. McCabe thinks his client isn't getting its money's worth . . . it is Mr. McCabe's duty to cancel the contract. It's all right with us either way, but if we get any more letters from Mr. McCabe like the last one we won't leave the decision to him." Beaumont & Hohman recanted...