Word: steuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break his autocracy three rebel members of Local 306 went to court, sought an injunction restraining President Kaplan from directing its affairs. His henchmen thereupon hired Lawyer Max D. Steuer, slick crook defender, to represent him and the other indicted officers. To pay the Steuer fee ($25,000) the local voted an assessment of $21 on each of its 1,200 members. Last week in Manhattan eight rebels sought another injunction to nullify the local's assessment, make Sam Kaplan pay his own lawyer's bill...
...Houston Street and Second Avenue, teeming Jewish district. Father Minsky immigrated from Russia and became a leading merchant on Grand Street when Grand Street was the location of Lord & Taylor and Arnold Constable. He was also elected alderman and got in the construction business. With Lawyer Max D. Steuer he put up the Winter Garden Building. It housed two theatres, one on the sixth floor, one on the first. Brother Billy, 45, started showing films in the upper auditorium in 1912. Brother Abe, 54, had been running a nickelodeon theatre of his own and drifted in to help. When Brother...
Testimony brought out the fact that Charlotte Fixel had represented herself as Mrs. Erlanger; that she had nursed Mr. Erlanger assiduously through his last illness. Then Lawyer Steuer began to bring in names of the theatrical world. Producer A. H. Woods said that he had met the contestant in Paris as "Mrs. Erlanger." Funnyman Eddie Cantor rolled his eyes when asked about his profession, said: "Well, there has always been some doubt, but I am supposed to be an actor." He too had met the defendant, in 1925, as "Mrs. Erlanger." When Lawyer Steuer had introduced 104 witnesses who over...
Lawyer Kresel promptly moved that the case be dismissed, heard himself denounced in familiar terms by Lawyer Steuer. For the defense, Lawyer Kresel tried to make it appear that Miss Fixel was a designing and tenacious mistress, whom Mr. Erlanger would gladly have deserted if he had known how. He called the publicity manager of the Erlanger theatrical enterprises who told how Mr. Erlanger had once denied a rumor that he intended to divorce his wife by saying "It is a silly story because I'm not married." A minor theatrical producer, Marcus Heiman, said that Mr. Erlanger...
...case was nearing its end. Charlotte Fixel had not been allowed to take the witness stand. She seldom heard her own name (Charlotte Fixel) or the name she had chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated...