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Was Muss Man Von Der Musikgeschichte Wissen?: Allgemeinverständlich Dargestellt
Max Steuer
S.W.H. Steinitz, 1900
Music; History & Criticism; Music; Music / History & Criticism
(Tradition recognises five social sciences: anthropology, ...)
Tradition recognises five social sciences: anthropology, economies, social psychology, sociology, and political science. But who knows what is going on in all five disciplines? Social scientists from one discipline often know little or nothing about the progress made by social scientists from another discipline working on essentially the same social problem. Sometimes, even of a neighbouring discipline is terra incognita. the methodology The problem becomes worse when we widen the remit to natural scientists and engineers. I have found little evidence myself that they see themselves as standing on the other side of an unbridgeable golf between two cultures. They observe the intellectual excesses of those few 'newage' social scientists who see themselves fighting a 'science war', but the ignorance of these innumerate critics is so apparent in their grossly naive attacks on natural science, that they are not taken seriously. However, although natural scientists appreciate that most social science is genuine science, they seldom know much about how and why it is done as it iso This can lead to serious inefficiencies in areas in which the traditional frontiers between social and natural science are melting away. An example is the frontier between the economies of imperfeet competition and evolutionary biology. Reversing the usual bias, the evolutionary biologists commonly know little mathematics, and hence find the game theory literature hard to read, with the result that they often spend their time re-inventing the wheel.
Max David Steuer was an American trial attorney in the first half of the 20th century. He made his name as counsel for the defense.
Background
Max was born on September 6, 1870 in Homino, a village then in the Austrian Empire, later in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), the youngest of four children and the only son of Aaron (or Aron) Steuer, a vintner in the employ of the Crown, and Dinah (Goodman) Steuer.
He himself always believed that he was born in 1871, though according to immigration records he was six years old when the family came to the United States in 1876. Steuer's father found employment in the New York garment industry as a needle worker.
Education
After elementary training in public school he entered the College of the City of New York in 1886, but the strain of attempting to work his way through while at the same time contributing to the support of his family proved too great, and he dropped out after three years.
He later entered the Columbia University Law School, where he proved a brilliant student, obtained his LL. B. degree in 1893, and was one of the prize men in his class.
Career
The family lived on the lower East Side in New York City, and Max worked after school hours, first as a newspaper boy and basting remover in a tailor shop and later in the post office.
Steuer's first few years of practice were not easy. But his genius for dealing with book entries, balance sheets, and figures generally soon began to manifest itself, as did his phenomenal memory. By 1898, while still in his twenties, he had built up a substantial commercial practice, rivaling Samuel Untermyer for the unofficial title of "the Attorney-General of the City Court. "
In that court he often acted as trial counsel, sometimes representing his own clients, sometimes appearing on retainer for other lawyers or their clients. One of his early cases represented a signal triumph: he secured the conviction of a city police inspector on charges of brutality, although the inspector was defended by the redoubtable and unscrupulous William F. Howe and Abraham Henry Hummel.
His successful defense of the actor Raymond Hitchcock, who was tried for a statutory offense in 1908, first made him known to the public generally. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1904.
Steuer reached the pinnacle of fame in jury trials, winning verdicts in seemingly impossible situations.
He won at least partial success when he represented the contestants in the case of the Amos F. Eno will, where a $13, 000, 000 estate was at stake, and defended President Harding's former Attorney-General, Harry M. Daugherty, against charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in a case growing out of the seizure of German property during the first World War.
He played the role of prosecutor at the trial of Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and chairman of the board, respectively, of the defunct Bank of the United States, obtaining their conviction.
Steuer was not unbeatable; he lost some of the cases he most wanted to win: the Stokes divorce case in 1923, where he represented W. E. D. Stokes and Samuel Untermyer represented Helen Elwood Stokes; the trial of charges against Maurice E. Connolly in 1928, growing out of the Queens sewer graft investigation; the trial of Sam Kaplan, president of a local union of the moving picture machine operators, for extortion in 1933; and others.
But such setbacks were few, and Steuer was rated as one of the greatest trial lawyers of his day. At the height of his career his income was believed to be over a million dollars a year.
He was a delegate to the New York State constitutional convention in 1938.
In the 1920's he participated in negotiations in the women's clothing industry which resulted in the first important industry-wide labor union contracts with employers.
Steuer died of a heart attack in Jackson, New Hampshire.
Achievements
Max David Steuer's most celebrated trials were as defense counsel for Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, owners of the Triangle clothing factory, where some 147 girls had lost their lives in a disastrous fire in 1911; for George L. ("Tex") Rickard, cowboy and sports promoter, tried on a morals charge; and for Charles E. Mitchell, former president of the National City Bank of New York City, charged with income tax evasion. In all cases he won acquittals.
For many years prior to his death Steuer acted as a member of the "board of strategy" of the local Democratic organization.
Views
He had a disconcerting way of making statements which provoked a challenge at critical moments, only to deal a telling blow by citing the very page of the transcript and reading the testimony word for word as he had stated it to be. Experienced lawyers against him never challenged his memory.
He had a most unusual capacity for grasping a case as a whole, as the sum of all its tiny parts; and by some intuitive process he sensed the hidden motivation for many a false but plausible story. With such a background, added to great technical skill in the formulation of questions, he was a subtle but merciless cross-examiner, and his cross-examination of adverse witnesses was his most formidable weapon.
Although he represented the manufacturers, his natural sympathies for the workers went a long way toward effecting an equitable agreement and one acceptable to the workers.
Personality
Steuer was slight, almost insignificant in appearance, with a slightly balding head. He dressed quietly. He spoke softly, sometimes almost in a whisper, it seemed. Some of those whom he had worsted in battle said he dressed as he did to make himself appear the underdog, and that his manner of speech was designed to command the attention of the jury and perhaps to take advantage of some of his adversaries from the leading law firms whose hearing was not of the best. But his attention to detail and his resourcefulness when apparently checkmated were constantly in evidence.
Connections
He had married Bertha Popkin in 1897, and she survived him, as did his children, Aron, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, Ethel, wife of New York Supreme Court Justice Henry Epstein, and Constance, wife of New York City Magistrate Alfred M. Lindau.
