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Show WHEN KEY PITTMAN WAS IN NOME In the early and rough days of Nome, Alaska, Key Pittman, who now is the Junior senator from Nevada, served a term as prosecuting attorney. attor-ney. Naturally he acquired a large acquaintance among the lawless element ele-ment and its members, in turn, gained a high respect for the legal abilities of the man who sent bo many of them to jail. The quite natural result was that after his term as prosecuting attorney at-torney closed he found himself in command com-mand of a large criminal practice. Among his clients were a number of: the leaders of the rough and morally irresponsible crowd who turned to him to extricate them from the trou-i bles in which they frequently found themselves. Too often, however, they, failed to pay the lawyer for his serv-, ices, and finally Mr. Pittman grew, tired of working for them for nothing. In those days in Nome coal was sold largely by the sack and was very valuable. Shortly after the arrest of a notoriously shady character for the theft of 180 ot tuese precou Inl o? the accnsed man's pals came to Pittman to retain h services "Look here. Jack," replied Pittman. "I'm tired of porting '"7 for nothing. I'm neither a millionaire nor a philanthropist. You get some, one else to defend Chick." . . lt. "We'll pay you for this," replied Jack. "Weve got the stuff to do it. i |