Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been carpeted to protect the ballerinas' feet. Samovars and champagne pails were in the dressing-rooms. Out front were people who had paid up to $100 for their seats. There were cheers and flowers for every curtain call. At a champagne supper afterwards old Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath was so enthusiastic that he drank a toast from a $65 slipper...
...young (43), born in Milwaukee, but not to wealth. He is not only handsome, bright-eyed, good-humored, but since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range...
...Federal Courts of the Southern District of New York. Representative Celler of New York, setting out to prove this "monopoly," found that since its appointment Irving Trust has paid $3,486,000 in legal fees to 361 lawyers for handling 4,419 bankruptcy cases, that the firm of Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood got most ($409,000 for handling eleven cases) ; that four firms got over $1,000,000 of the total; that the bank holds $21,000,000 deposits for bankrupts in liquidation. Irving Trust as trustee for certain bankrupts filed claims of $778,000,000 against itself as trustee...
...laymen who stuff themselves into full dress and go to sit with their wives at grand opera or concerts have such intellectual honesty and humility as patriarchal Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath exhibited last winter. Lawyer Cravath is not "musical"' and, with the practical candor of Booth Tarkington's Plutocrat, he admits it. He felt that, as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he should understand more about what he sits and listens to. So all last winter he took lessons in appreciation from Pianist Olga Samaroff". So did 40 Junior League girls who in a few months lost...
...school. He wanted her to teach his daughter Elizabeth enough music so that she would be interested when she went with him to the opera. Later Mme Samaroff experimented with her friends, Mrs. Theodore Steinway and Mrs. Otto Kahn-"guinea pigs" she calls them-who with Lawyer Cravath and the Junior League girls are booming the new school...