Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh Case ended on Sept. 19, 1934 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in The Bronx, N. Y. for possession of Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
Judge Hand is speaking under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Law School Comittee, and he will be introduced by Professor Felix Frankfurter. The last speaker sponsored by this committee was William L. Ransom, president of the American Bar Association...
...However Ransom pointed out that there "simply isn't enough legal work in any of our large cities to provide the $3000 income which I consider the minimum for a lawyer...
...real backbone of the legal profession, Ransom declared, does not lie in New York or Boston or Washington. It is not in any of the larger metropolises, but in the smaller cities with a population of under 50,000. If there is anything worthwhile being developed in this country, it is being done in these smaller cities and towns, he said...
...Ransom emphasized the practical side of law work, saying that the men who are running the employment in the bigger law firms are looking for graduates with practical viewpoints, and men who give the impression of maturity and resourcefulness...