Word: neblett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of Lawyer Hall's staff named Jack Irwin successfully prosecuted two Los Angeles doctors for violation of Federal antinarcotic legislation. The doctors were convicted. Their lawyer, R. Dean Warner, was cited for contempt of court. Dean Warner is a member of the Los Angeles firm of McAdoo, Neblett & Warner, whose senior partner is California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Last week, Attorney Hall claimed that his ousting as U. S. District Attorney had been prompted by Senator McAdoo's political pique. He said that at the time of his appointment Senator McAdoo had advised him pointedly...
Most ominous accusation came from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo's law partner, Colonel William Haynie Neblett, a policyholder. He charged that directors of old Pacific Mutual had dictated Governor Frank Finley Merriam's appointment of Commissioner Carpenter for the specific purpose of handling the reorganization, that the reorganization was part of a conspiracy by officers of old Pacific Mutual now in the new company to get control of Pacific Mutual assets...
...from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
From the law office of McAdoo & Neblett, Colonel William Haynie Neblett hastened to inform the Press: "All she has is a monthly allowance given her by her father. This and all future aid will be denied her if she goes ahead with her wild plan to marry a man whom her father has never seen." From a call on Mrs. McAdoo, who divorced the Senator last summer (TIME, July 30). Colonel Neblett emerged with the news that Ellen had "disappeared," that her mother was "prostrate in bed." Said he : "I don't know where she is but it seems...
Early next morning Ellen was home and her "prostrate" mother was protesting: "They were out driving." To put an end to Ellen's drives, McAdoo & Neblett next confiscated her car. Retorted Ellen: "I can walk. And I will walk...