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Guild also flatly refuted the charge that Drinker holds stock in the Collins company. "My client has never held any stock in Collins' firm; the sole remuneration he has gained from his invention was royalties from the sales of the first Drinker model," Guild said. This charge had been circulated by several magazines and newspapers...
...Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid that the fact that Mr. Biddle was a capitalist would react unfavorably on the jury. So shrewd Max Steuer instead of asking his occupation phrased his query: "W'hat do you do for occupation?" Said...
Entering a Boston courtroom 15 minutes before the trial, Attorney David A. Rose volunteered to defend one-armed Philip Copell, pleaded passionately, listened sadly as his client received a sentence of 2½-to 3 years for robbery. Philip Copell lost his arm 20 years ago when he, 12, pulled David Rose, 6, from the path of a streetcar...
Miss O'Brien was charged with withholding $80,000 in securities given her by a client. She explained that all her operations for clients were conducted in her own name, that some of them were on margin. When the market slumped she suddenly found the securities frozen in her brokerage accounts and bank loans. No matter how loudly a client might demand, there was no way to get the securities...
...weekly Kiplinger letter, issued by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, is as speculative as the Cabinet guess. More typical are Kiplinger's shrewd and crackling appraisals of current news. These he gives in a blunt, crisp style tuned to his client...