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...defend himself, Borough President Connolly hired unfinicky Lawyer Max D. Steuer, "the Belasco of the Bar." After a succession of confused events, including mysterious burning and theft of records which might have injured the defense case, Connolly asked the city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...
...much of this tangle was truth and how much bad temper the world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over the list of famed lawyers that had worked on the case, Charles Evans Hughes, Max D. Steuer, Hiram C. Todd, John Proctor Clarke, John W. Davis, etc. Such legal leviathans are often paid $5,000 for mere preliminary opinions. If they so wished they could exist comfortably from squabble cases, living...
...were only "five years out of school." The 16-year-old firm now employs fifty-some associates and, a thoroughgoing municipal investigation of considerable gravity being required, Partner Buckner is the man called in. For defense against hard-hitting Lawyer Buckner, President Connolly of Queens engaged Lawyer Max D. Steuer, "the Belasco...
...Steuer, New York trial lawyer: "Last week newsgatherers asked me what remedy I had for what I called the 'failure of justice in this city.' To them I replied that I would let the Appellate division of the Supreme Court appoint able lawyers to act as judges for 30 to 60 days. This would speed up the courts, remove many thousand undecided cases from overcrowded dockets...
...Said Lawyer Steuer: "Harry Daugherty -yesterday, sought after by all the land; today, hounded; a broken old man; his life spent; his best friend, the President, dead; his close friend Jess Smith, gone, a suicide ; his wife gone; his political career over. He went to the 'shack,' and those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So this lonesome old man, alone with those records, destroyed them...