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...Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness, whichever seemed...
...Steuer, counsel for the defense, might have been better pleased if the jury had not been that rarity-a New York jury without a Jew. He turned to his client, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, with a hand half-raised: "Look. Are they satisfactory?" Mr. Mitchell murmured grimly: "Satisfactory - perfectly satisfactory." They were mostly men of the comfortable, educated middle class. The court adjourned; Mr. Steuer patted Mr. Mitchell's muscular shoulder, ending the first act of an historic trial...
...mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan & Co. $5,852,538.38 which the collateral fails to cover by about $1,000,000. Mr. Steuer makes the point that because of an unselfish effort to avert a disastrous crash in City Bank shares his client is a ruined debtor...
Governor Black is more lawyer than banker. Born in Atlanta ten years after Sherman burned it, he went to the University of Georgia, was admitted to the bar despite his refusal to study criminal law, took on Southern Railway as a client. In 1897 he married Gussie Grady, daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, prophet of the "New South," burier of the bloody shirt. One day ten years ago "Gene" Black, noticing that banks closed in midafternoon, decided banking was easier than the law. Shortly thereafter he accepted the presidency of Atlanta Trust...
...behalf of our client, the Hotel Pierre, I wish to say that they are no longer bankrupt, but were reorganized and reincorporated as of Feb. 1, 1933. Mr. Charles Pierre, as President of the new corporation, is still actively in charge of the management of the hotel. Your phrase "echoing calm" also seems untoward, as the hotel is 60% occupied...