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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawyer Steuer.* In Manhattan, it leaked out that Max D. Steuer had been obliged to pay $5,251.30 in duties and fines for an improper customs declaration which his wife had made out for them jointly. Inspectors had discovered $2,625.65 (U. S. value) worth of dresses, lingerie, etc., etc., in the Steuer luggage which Mrs. Steuer had neglected to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Common Customs | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...embarrassing for Mr. Steuer because he already enjoys a fame bordering on notoriety. He is a lawyer. Not brilliant mentally, he excels at courtroom melodramatics of a type which many a jury has found seductive. "The Belasco of the Bar," he has been called, by persons not trying to compliment Producer David Belasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Common Customs | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Married. Aaron Steuer, lawyer son of Max D. Steuer, famed criminal lawyer; to Virginia Clark, dancer (Sidewalks of New York); at Jackson Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Herbert Steuer, 35, X-ray specialist; by electric shock from his X-ray machine, while making an examination; in Cleveland. Four doctors, including George W. Crile, worked unsuccessfully with ten tanks of oxygen trying to resuscitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...defend himself, Borough President Connolly hired unfinicky Lawyer Max D. Steuer, "the Belasco of the Bar." After a succession of confused events, including mysterious burning and theft of records which might have injured the defense case, Connolly asked the city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sewer Sequel | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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