Word: steuer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward...
...Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball), on a tip that it would pay $25 a share...
...Steuer got back some of his money, but lent Mrs. Hines some more and is now owed...
York area, the union last April won a State board election by a majority of 36 votes in 2,520, was then certified as bargaining agent. Metropolitan's famed Attorney Samuel Seabury asked New York Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer to set aside the order. Grounds: the State Labor Relations act is unconstitutional; in any event it does not cover insurance agents; "The only Constitutional sanction for [union recognition by State decree] is to be found in the Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia." Last week Justice Steuer turned down Mr. Seabury, upheld I.I.A.U...
...admission Promoter Rice has spent a total of $4,000,000 on lawyers' fees in various attempts to keep out of jail, and his attorneys have included Max D. Steuer and onetime U. S. Senator James Reed.† But in 1928 George Graham Rice was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of Idaho Copper shares and sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years. An additional five-year sentence was suspended on condition that he report regularly to a probation officer after release...