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...Chinese famine sufferers in 1920-21. But that was back in good times. This year, two Red Cross campaigns for China have fizzled like dead Chinese firecrackers. Nine months ago was set up the National Emergency Committee, under the chairmanship of Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath (Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood), with the aim of raising enough money so that the 13 colleges might continue. Last week, as the aim became a reality and plans for a second drive ($330,000) were announced, Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang wired the Committee: THIS IS A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE INTEREST OF OUR AMERICAN...
...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...
Venireman Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, admits having met Mr. Mitchell, that their daughters go to the same school, that he knows two members of Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood who advised Mr. Mitchell in income tax matters, but says he is not prejudiced. Mr. Medalie eliminates him by a peremptory challenge. Once the two lawyers shout at each other. Their voices crack. The judge quietly tells them to go on with the examination...
...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...
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...