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...year ago Howard Shirley Palmer walked in through the accounting office to the presidency of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. when big, bluff John Jeremiah Pelley walked out to become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing...
...Oxford, N. C., subsequently sat for four years on the State bench. During the Wilson Administration, his fellow North Carolinian, Josephus Daniels, got him a job as Assistant Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another, he did not set himself up as a rival of the potent and popular Professor Frankfurter...
...spats and morning coats, two young men in ordinary business suits rose to argue. One was Emanuel Redfield, representing Norman C. Norman. New to the highest court in the land, he opened the argument, choked over some of his words, swallowed others, was obviously abashed. The other sack-suited pleader was Attorney Perry arguing his own case, which he did with maximum brevity, maximum precision. Most embarrassing moment fell to James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty...
...Crile's nor his relatives' money was legally touchable through the Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic is a foundation protected by only $30,000 liability insurance. Claimants for damages might easily wreck the institution, but claimants could squeeze no money from empty corridors. Attorney Paul Lamb, astute pleader persuaded the litigants to settle, and the court approved, on a basis which involved the value of life and the cost of dependency in Depression. The $1,500,000 claims were settled for $167,000, of which the Clinic raised $137.000 from its own funds, insurance contributed $30,000. Where...
...saying that the halls of Congress were ''haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" and then TIME remarks, ". . . active and successful lobbies which pay their legislative agents $10,000 or so per year to secure Congressional favors include the following. . . . Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...