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...expect that in return for his retainer-$150,000- Tom Dewey will be able to turn a loud no into a multimillion-dollar yes. But Dewey carefully cleared his plans with the State Department before taking on the assignment, and he was told that the best service he could render his clients would be to show them why the U.S. answer must continue...
Duly registering with the Justice Department as the agent of a foreign government, Dewey agreed to "render such legal and counseling services as registrant may be in a position to render which are required by the affairs of the Republic of Turkey in the U.S." Last week, after a seven-day visit to get acquainted with his clients and the outlines of his assignment, Lawyer Dewey flew off on a round-the-world tour, planned to be back by Oct. 27 to talk Turkey in the U.S. The retainer to the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood...
...just the opposite; mergers have made more banks than ever capable of competing. Said Chase Manhattan's Chairman John J. McCloy before the House Antitrust Subcommittee: "Any attempt to hold banks in a static mold, impervious to the dynamic forces reshaping the rest of society, would be to render them less useful and gradually impotent...
...A.M.A.'s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry is abandoning its old system: testing every manufacturer's brand of drugs and awarding seals of approval for those that pass. Instead, the council will henceforth sift researchers' reports on new drugs as soon as they are submitted and render a verdict on each as a standard chemical, ignoring brand names...
Three hours later, the bootlegger reported, the jurors all came out completely plastered and had the nerve to render a decision of "guilty." The lawyer for the defense jumped up, protesting futilely that "these men aren't jurors; they're witnesses...