Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
...Southern District of New York. His name was Louis Samter Levy. For 37 years sharp, shrewd, able Louis Levy has practiced law in New York. For most of these years he was reputed a wizard at piercing the tangles and thickets of corporation and other law. His office in Wall Street-shared with various capable partners-flourished through the worst years of Depression: from 1932 to 1938 Louis Levy made $1,396,000. In 1933 alone he made $336,000. He bought Harold Vanderbilt's Palm Beach villa. He had great clients-among them American Tobacco Co. Defending...
...cold afternoon last week a pale, dark-haired young woman, supported by a nurse and a detective, entered a Manhattan court, staggered to a chair and slumped back with her head against the wall. The corridor and waiting rooms outside the justice's chambers were crowded. A group of reporters stood in the corner. At a long mahogany table facing the Supreme Court Justice's desk sat the young lady's parents. Across the table from them sat a young man with a belligerently cheerful smile. With him was his lawyer. "It's real love...
Jerry Nason of the Globe: "Harvard by 14 to 10. It should be a particularly hard fought battle though, because of Yale's excellent line. The Harvard forward wall has improved greatly, especially the running linemen who should lead the Cantabs to a pair of touchdown via the ground route...
Outrunning the Eli front wall, Macdonald swept through his right end for five yards, but the Harvard attack stalled after a 40 yard advance and Yale took the ball on downs on its own 21. Burr's quick kick went over MacDonald's head and went out of bounds on the Harvard 29. Spreyer and Macdonald hit the guards for eight yards. A Yale offside gave Harvard the ball on first down...