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Paul Drennan Cravath, potent New York lawyer, urged diplomatic recognition of Russia by the U. S. Col. Hugh Lincoln Cooper, engineer for the huge Soviet power plant on the Dnieper, declared: "The world is making a big mistake in underestimating Russian leadership...
...went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that...
...last 15 Presidents of the Harvard Law Review and their positions are: 1914, Boykin C. Wright, senior partner, Cotton & Franklin, New York; 1915, Robert P. Patterson, partner, Webb, Patterson & Hadley, New York; 1916, Gerard C. Henderson,* senior partner, Cravath, Henderson & Degersdorff, New York; 1917, Charles Bunn, partner, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler, St. Paul; 1918, Lloyd H. Landau, special counsel, Public Service, St. Louis; 1919, George E. Osborne, Professor of Law at Stanford University; 1920, Cloyd Laporte, junior partner, Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine, New York; 1921, Donald C. Swatland, junior partner, Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood, New York; 1922, Bertram...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...