Word: ledyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to call on them, his law business went to pot. At that point Richard Knight pulled himself together and got down to work again. He acquired a house on Long Island. His friends forgot his recent unlovely behavior, once more found him irresistibly amusing. He married handsome Dorothy Ledyard, daughter of a distinguished Manhattan attorney. They had two children...
...Friends. Thus was crowned a friendship that began in New York City in 1907. When Franklin Roosevelt, fresh from Columbia Law School, was a well-dressed young man in the offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, he met Felix Frankfurter, who was the smart young trust-busting assistant of Roosevelt I's U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry L. Stimson...
...pressed steadily along the line he announced as he took office: "Our duty is plain. We must do everything in our power to provide as safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with...
Franklin Roosevelt's first job was as clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney...
...James D. Lightbody 130 John F. Kennedy 93 Thomas V. Healey 92 Samuel W. White 90 Phil C. Neal 87 Michael B. Grace 87 Torbert H. Macdonald 86 John L. Donnell 83 Charles D. Lutz 76 Engene V. Clark 59 Fay Rockwell Hollands 49 Theodore L. Hazlett 47 Ledyard B. Clard 29 Martin J. Lydon 22 Total 508 Invalid 17 *Elected 1939 RESULTS *F. Austin Harding 193 *Richard H. Sullivan 168 *Robert L. Green 167 *Charles L. Burwell 148 *James Tobin 141 *J. Spence Harvin 139 Cleveland Amory 136 Clarence E. Boston 133 Edmond L. Cherbonnier 128 Oliver P. Bolton...