Word: pleaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Motorists. The American Automobile Association, whose special pleader is Alexander E. Johnson, failed to block a Senate increase in the automobile...
Instead of being thrown into penury. Horse Doctor Doyle set himself up as a special pleader before the Board of Standards & Appeals. Such a position requires no legal experience. Word soon got round that if you wanted to locate a garage in a restricted neighborhood or construct a building out of unapproved material, the man to "see" was "Doc" Doyle. By 1930. aged 60, the genial little man had acquired nine children and more than a million dollars...
...lean, grey-haired John Reynard Todd of the engineering firm of Todd Robertson Todd.* In New York his firm is responsible for the much admired Graybar and Cunard buildings. John Reynard Todd is a great & good friend of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. A qualified lawyer, he is an able pleader. Last May he had many interviews with Mr. Rockefeller, with Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co. and with officials of Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In June it was announced that the great project would go forward, not as an opera but as a radio...