Word: shyster
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...true ,that the firm of Davis, Michel, Yaeger & McGinley specializes in appearing for injured railroad workmen. There is a vast difference between the shyster type, who use tricky methods, and the high type of lawyers (and they are too few) who are satisfied to let the lucrative corporation practice go by the boards and fight for justice to the worker...
...situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming, play in small towns for small fees. Through Russia, at 22, Albert traveled second and third class, playing one-night stands. No one knew he was the son of a sporting goods tycoon. His manager was a shyster and pocketed all the receipts. But Spalding made a name for himself, lived down his comfortable background. Today no U. S. musician has greater honor in his own country and in Europe than. Violinist Spalding. Recently in Europe he gave 50 concerts with unusual success, in Berlin had highest praise...
...cannot compel persons to come forward with it." The inference Secretary Young implied was, that official silence is essential for such cooperation; that his department did not choose to fix a cause for the accident only to have legal procedure haled in and departmental records opened to rifling by shyster lawyers. To promote aviation with knowledge gained after accidents, Secretary Young pointed two instances: the September crash of the T. A. T. liner on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico resulted in recommendation that the course be changed; the January crash of the T. A. T.-Maddux liner between San Diego...
...seldom nowadays that distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation...
...Shyster lawyers propped unshined shoes on dirty desks and snickered. At Justice Joseph M. Proskauer of the New York Supreme Court* their giggles were aimed...