Word: morely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Preventing the use of cheaper material, improved equipment or more efficient methods.
Loans. In 1931 a Manhattan lawyer decided that his shares of American Tobacco Co. stock would be worth more if the company officers paid back bonuses they arranged for themselves and got no similar ones in the future. He slapped on two stockholders' suits in which the corporation, although...
With ex-Justice George Sutherland he concurred in two other now-famous decisions which typified the conservatives' views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone...
His reputation for sharpness grew; his well-placed friends multiplied; names accumulated on the office door. After 1920 he saw more & more of his old classmate, Martin Manton, by then a Federal Circuit Court judge, became interested in two of Manton's many enterprises. And during the Depression something...
Judge Knox cleared American Tobacco's Paul Hahn of anything worse than "poor judgment," declared that innocent Lord & Thomas' Albert Lasker had been "shamefully treated." He said that the relations existing between Levy and Judge Manton were such that Judge Manton should have retired from the case of...