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...suggest, before the trial had terminated, counsel for plaintiff made the statement in open court that all his client desired was vindication. To my lay mind that evinced the purpose of this action on her part. She was seeking publicity ... so that she might sell The President's Daughter to a credulous public and realize a fortune. For almost three years my counsel, Grant E. Mouser Sr. of Marion, Ohio, and Donald F. Melhorn and Crary Davis of Toledo, Ohio, used every reasonsable and honorable means to have this case dismissed and to end this tragedy which involved...
...appreciate the husky, vibrant quality which makes some mediocre voices broadcast better than finer, better trained ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents...
...prosecutor at heart," soon he was in Manhattan, in a role that fitted him like a glove : defense lawyer in criminal cases. Partner McGee did the ground work, Fallon put on the fireworks display in court. A tricky lawyer when he had to be, his specialty was getting his client off by a disagreement in the jury. He "hung the jury" so often by the score of 11 to 1 that finally people began to whisper of bribery. At 34, Fallon had won 126 cases straight...
...delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read over the strenuous objections of Snorkey's attorneys, who maintained a lawyer could not "confess" for his client, Attorney Fink heaved a sigh. "Oh, my conscience!" he sighed. "They've got him nailed to the cross...
Editor Sheba's story: Herndon & Pangborn were under contract with North American Newspaper Alliance whose client, Tokyo Nichi-Nichi, had bought the rights to their story. The contract made it improper for the flyers to compete for the Asahi's prize, but the Asahi made persistent overtures nonetheless. Each paper feared that the other would win the flyers as proteges. Hence, when the government officials showed hostility toward the men for entering Japan without a permit and flying over fortified zones, each paper seized the opportunity to destroy the flyers' value to the opposition. Both alighted heavily...