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...Important stage direction: the Judge, the prosecutor, and the defense attorney are all recovering from severe colds. The Judge, normally firm-voiced, speaks in a stage whisper. Mr. Medalie starts vigorously, soon grows hoarse and his voice fades. Mr. Steuer, always soft spoken, can hardly be heard...
...David Steuer, slick little crook-defender, very quiet, very polite, very imperturbable, sitting at Mr. Mitchell's side...
...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...