Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were arrested last week. Dozenberg's alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...
...political chemist, but no freshman, was District Attorney John R. Shook, boyhood friend of Maury, now one of the leaders of the opposition which kept Maury out of Congress in 1938, tried to keep him out of the Mayor's office. In his political laboratory, Mr. Shook got to work. He uncovered one Maxwell Burkett, San Antonio lawyer who had been an attorney for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Mr. Burkett, it was alleged in court later, had been prevented, as part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook...
...Chrysler unionists voted, 25,402 to 2,030, to make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy...
...business went to pot. At that point Richard Knight pulled himself together and got down to work again. He acquired a house on Long Island. His friends forgot his recent unlovely behavior, once more found him irresistibly amusing. He married handsome Dorothy Ledyard, daughter of a distinguished Manhattan attorney. They had two children...
...years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys had done "what any red-blooded Virginian* would have done . . ." And that "these young men have rendered a public service to this community...