Word: clients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With many a South American client to please, the United Press would soon find itself embarrassed if the Government should in any way attempt to oversee the color or angle of any U. S. news involving Government or Business or interactions...
...builders pay their architects each year total not less than $80,000,000. Of that sum architects by unorderly conduct of their business waste perhaps $8,000,000. If queried on the wastage, an architect would doubtless explain that he is too concerned for the needs of his client to be careful of his own expenditures...
...resignation which President Coolidge did accept was that of Owen J. Roberts, Philadelphia lawyer, as special U. S. counsel in the oil scandals. Lawyer Roberts' business was suffering because the Congressional resolution under which he was appointed forbade him to serve any client whose case had to be taken up with any branch of the government. President Coolidge sympathized and said: "I want to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the government for the fidelity and energy with which you have prosecuted these cases." Actions still pending against Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall were...
Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...
Came then the smash-sensation. "My client has been foully tortured," said Demetrio Sodi in a low tense voice. "When he revealed to me what the police had done, I was as nauseated as though I were beholding Doré's depiction of the infernal cycles of Dante's Inferno! I will put my client on the stand...