Word: steuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Martin Wiley Littleton. Mr. Kresel himself appeared in court with his counsel, John William Davis, erstwhile Democratic candidate for President. They were but a few of the bank officials' lawyers. On the other side appeared District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain and above all Max D. Steuer in the double capacity of Special Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant District Attorney appointed for the case. For his services in this case the soft-tongued Mr. Steuer, who has pocketed enormous fees, who has a reputation in the law of having outsmarted more men than Odysseus...
...Steuer v. Kresel. While Judge Corrigan was still smarting at being made the squire of 48 wayward dames, Tammany got in its first successful dig at the Seabury investigation. The digger was astute Lawyer Max D. Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel...
Last week the New York City Board of Aldermen added $5,000 to the $2,500 reward already offered by the New York Evening World for finding Justice Crater. Famed Lawyer Max Steuer said he would raise the money if the Aldermen could not legally do so. New York police mailed to colleagues all over the world 10,000 circulars, like those advertising criminals wanted, with Judge Crater's photograph and description prominently displayed: "Age, 41 years; height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair . . . thin at top, parted in middle, 'slicked' down; . . . brown eyes; false...
...syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer to prove it. Protested Judge Erlanger: "There is no Mrs. Erlanger. There is no widow...