Word: steuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary lawyer. He had already advised with such famed firms as Cravath, Degers-dorff, Swaine & Wood and Davis. Polk. Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent...
...Steuer's latest cause celebre turns on a simple question of bona fides. Did Elizabeth Rend Mitchell pay for the National City stock with her own money without thought of reselling it to her defendant husband? Nothing is harder to prove or disprove than "intent" and against her husband Mrs. Mitchell cannot be forced to testify. If despite Max Steuer the Government proves that the sale was not in good faith, handsome, steel-haired Charles Edwin Mitchell may be fined $10,000, clapped in jail for five years. Two good reasons for hiring Lawyer Steuer were 1) there would...
onetime Tammany boss; Max David Steuer, Tammany's legal brains. They were there to settle the nomination and they...
...York Democrats and Republicans have a habit of endorsing each other's reputable candidates for the bench. Last week mousey little John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which he was a minority member (TIME, April...
Simultaneously Republican Boss Sam Koenig assembled his docile cohorts at the National Republican Club to make up a Manhattan-Bronx judicial ticket. Senator Hofstadter was nominated with a whoop ?and so was young Democrat Steuer. Thus effectively closed to New York voters was all choice between bench candidates...