Background
He was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1930 with an Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude.
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George Alexander
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University of Michigan. University of Michigan Law School.
Career
After retiring from, he wrote well-regarded biographies of Virginia Woolf and William Cobbett. He was associated with the Michigan Daily there. He earned a law degree from University of Michigan Law School in 1933.
In 1935 he was admitted to the Barometer
He spent most of his law career working in aviation advising in particular Eastern Airlines and Transcontinental Air Transport (forerunner of Trans World Airlines). He worked at Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside and Wolff in New York and was a partner there in 1942–1958.
He left Chadbourne in 1959 to join as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Spater got caught in the investigations into the Watergate scandal and had to resign from American and was disbarred over illegal $55,000 contribution to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President—although Spater was never charged or prosecuted.
He then gave the $20,000 to CREP in $100 bills (which was legal since it involved personal accounts).
Still short of the $100,000 quota, he then authorized a $55,000 off the books transaction involving a safe at headquarters in New New York When a lawsuit by Common Cause revealed the contribution, he was sacked by the American board and Smith returned as interim Chief Executive Officer.
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American