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...names that were once big in two big cities made news last week as the result of Federal proceedings against them. In Manhattan the lawyers of elderly Joseph Wright Harriman were doing their utmost before a judge and jury to keep their client from going to jail on a charge of misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other...
...bitterly opposing the jumping of Commander Calver over his seagoing seniors. Washington private practitioners resent Dr. Calver's free treatment to Congressional secretaries, wives, families, visitors. However, he gives non-members only emergency treatments. Regular patients are primarily Senators and Representatives (Vice President Garner is an assiduous client) and a few of their former colleagues, like onetime Vice President Charles Curtis. A stronger hindrance developed last week. John Raymond McCarl, comptroller-general, let it be known that Congress could promote Dr. Calver to anything it liked, but that he would not pay him one cent more than he gets...
...vitamins, vegetable, and zwiebach in a separate paper cup; "Kennel" of beef, cabbage and a Shredded Wheat-each with a helping of fish on Friday. But Caterer Goff soon discovered that no such simple fare would do for Main Line dogs. He now prints a menu from which the client may order according to his dog's tastes or his veterinarian's advice. Entrees include beef hearts (16? per lb.), beef liver (20? ), beef kidneys (19? ), beef head meat (12? ), lamb (16? ), lamb hearts (16? ), tripe (11? ) and tongue (21? ). Beverages are cod liver oil, haliveroil, lime water...
Best represented profession in Congress is the Law: 68 of the 96 Senators, 251 of the 435 Representatives are members of the bar. For eleven years Senator Borah has been worried by the fact that as lawyers, drawing fees from clients, Congressmen are liable to be prejudiced in enacting new legislation. As the result of long pondering he drafted a bill whereby: 1) no Congressman could accept any fee for representing any client, not only before any department of the Government (already illegal), but also in any court case in which the Government is interested; 2) any Congressman acting...
Senator Long: The reason why I have not received any fees since I came to the Senate is that, with my limited time, I have not been able to get a client who had little enough intellect to employ me. I have tried, however. ... I do not recall that I ever took many lawsuits for corporations in my life. Certainly none against a poor man. I am on the other side. I sue the railroads. I sue the corporations. I sometimes defend people charged with crime. I had a pretty good practice representing employes under the Federal Employes' Liability...