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...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...
...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...
...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...