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Charles P. Curtis '13 wrote, "I do not see why we should not come out roundly and say that one of the functions of a lawyer is to lie for his client." Curtis is associated with Choate, Hall and Stewart, a Boston law firm...
...University prep school at Omaha. Later, he worked in the credit and sales promotion departments of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Washington, studied law at Georgetown University at night. In 1932, he moved to Chicago, set himself up as a corporation lawyer, soon had a lucrative practice. (Best-known client: Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago.) Mitchell became friendly with Stevenson in 1945, when the two men would sit up late at night talking law. Mitchell helped persuade Stevenson to run for governor...
...this "idea of balance," says László, that distinguishes him from most modern architects. And too few of them pay enough attention to the house owner. Building a house, says László, "is like giving birth to a baby. The client is the mother, and I am the father...
Candy & Tobacco. Real horses & buggies filled the roads when Willis Carrier, a young Cornell-trained engineer employed by the Buffalo Forge Co., founded the modern air-conditioning industry in 1902. His first client was a Brooklyn lithograph company which had trouble because varying humidity in the shop made its paper contract & expand. Carrier devised a system which not only controlled humidity but cooled and circulated the air as well...
...human behavior) so much unproved and badly stated "dogma." Since patients often have moral problems connected with their neurosis, "it is dangerous, and very much so, when the psychiatrist is guided . . . by the materialistic philosophy of human nature which Freud championed so ardently." The book also frowns on modern "client-centered therapy," particularly when a doctor tries to solve "religious and moral difficulties" by dissecting the patient's psyche, then letting the patient put the pieces together again in whichever way his instincts suggest. They write: "[This] is based on the assumption that the source of valuing things lies...