In 1920 there was talk of disbarring him because of an instantaneous divorce he obtained for Mary Piokford.
His first two novels had German translations, and the money he obtained for them he used for butterfly-hunting expeditions (he eventually published 18 scientific papers on entomology).
In 1957, he scored a public relations coup when he obtained for display a plaster cast of the coelacanth, the rare four-finned fish often described as a living fossil.
Mr. Cruz said he disclosed bank loans that he obtained for his 2012 Senate campaign with the Senate, but his failure to disclose them to federal elections officials was just a paperwork error.
He coached his son Robert, born in 1563, for the secretaryship, which he obtained for him in 1596; Robert had taken over its responsibilities after Walsingham's death in 1590.
Even before Mr. Kruger's resignation, Mr. Fidler had started running full-page advertisements in Orthodox Jewish newspapers that trumpet the city subsidies he obtained for a long list of Jewish organizations.
Although Mr. Edwards never got to test that closing argument -- the doctor he sued settled the case for $5 million two weeks into the trial -- his rigorous preparation was typical of the care he took in choosing his clients, telling their stories and maximizing both the money he obtained for them and his own fees during his extraordinary 20-year legal career.
When a Christian purchased an indulgence from the Church, he obtained — for himself or whomever else he was trying to benefit — a reduction in the amount of time the person's soul had to spend in Purgatory, atoning for his sins, before ascending to Heaven.
The company, built up by Lilian Baylis during the 1930s, had moved from the Sadler's Wells theatre in north London to the larger and more central London Coliseum in 1968, and the new title he obtained for it further enhanced its status.
