Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate at Hyde Park, the President announced the library would be completed by next July, that his papers would be available there to authorized persons by July 1941. Since the Library will hold 6,000,000 documents, covering the President's career from the time he was New York State Senator, this looked like an indication that he would not run. No U. S. President has made his correspondence accessible to students and biographers while holding office. But political sleuths pondered: cataloguing the collection will take from ten to 20 years, the collection could easily be locked...
...criticized decision was one he wrote in the Indianapolis Water Co. case, which established the practice of using "reproduction cost new" of a plant as the basis for valuation in cases where high rates were attacked. Too, Pierce Butler was with the conservative majority which held that the New York State minimum-wage law for women was unconstitutional...
Last week a prominent corporation lawyer was barred from ever again practicing in the Federal District Court for the 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...
...junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned by a New York County Grand Jury because of his part in settling a bankruptcy...
...subject to possible stays. Disbarment from practice in this Federal Court would not prevent Louis Levy from continuing the practice of law in State courts. But almost automatically a record of the proceedings and Judge Knox's opinion would go to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. If disbarred by the Appellate Division the name of Louis Levy would also be stricken from the list of lawyers eligible to practice law in all New York State courts. Day after Judge Knox's decision, the law firm of Stanchfield & Levy was dissolved...