Word: shyster
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...present price: $36) for each three shares they now hold. Mathieson's regular bankers. Hayden, Stone & Co.. will head a group to underwrite the issue in the usual manner. But Mathieson will not know whether its plunge was fatal until after the stock has been issued and shyster lawyers have had an opportunity to start nuisance suits...
...Were Free (RKO). In the current revival of law in the cinema, Gordon Evers (Clive Brook) in If I Were Free, qualifies for a peculiar niche. He is not a daring semi-shyster like George Simon and Ernest Barringer. He is a London barrister in wig or silk hat. He has no office. But, like the others, he does have an unhappy love life and a thirst...
...their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational...
True to his campaign pledge State's Attorney Courtney went after the Chicago racket system-unscrupulous businessmen working hand-in-glove with unscrupulous labor leaders, aided by thugs to do the bombing, window smashing and shooting and backed by crooked politicians and shyster lawyers. He induced kinetic Edwin J. Raber to serve as his special prosecutor. Able Lawyer Raber dug into old newspaper files, searched police records, tapped wires, persuaded timid witnesses to tell the grand jury all they knew. First fruits of these efforts were last week's indictments against cleaners & dyers, laundry owners, their union cohorts...
...resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles without getting hurt. Everything goes well for Lawyer Stevens and his disreputable assistants until the traction company which is the chief victim of their...