Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Okanogan Indians. On July 3, 1926--less than ten days thereafter--the first session adjourned sine die. The President did not sign the bill, nor did he return it to Congress with his objections. Did the bill become a law? No, held the Court of Claims. Yes, contended counsel for the Indians, who appeal to the Supreme Court...
...morning meeting, at which W. F. Downey, headmaster of the English High School of Boston, will preside, Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration will discuss "Ethics and Business". A. V. Shaw of the firm of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, Investment Counsel, will speak on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem." At the close of the second address, there will be an opportunity for discussion of both these papers...
...publications, signed himself N like Napoleon. *Total paid in: $86,000. Largest subscriber, Mrs. William L. Harkness of Manhattan and Cleveland. First Board of Directors: Robert A. Chambers, Henry P. Davison, William V. Griffin, all of New York, William T. Hincks of Bridgeport, Conn.-besides Messrs. Hadden and Luce. Counsel: Judge Robert L. Luce of Manhattan...
Died. Elmer Schlesinger, 48, of Manhattan, Jewish lawyer (Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy), longtime Chicagoan, onetime vice president and general counsel of the U. S. Shipping Board; of heart disease; while golfing in Aiken, S. C. Lawyer Schlesinger was the husband of onetime Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, Chicago Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's sister. He was a director of the Patterson publications (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Liberty Magazine). He was divorced from Halle Schaffner of Chicago, daughter of Founder Joseph Schaffner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, tailors...
Behind its failure is a story of petty Louisiana politics. Each bidder for the bridge franchise secured the services of a former Governor as counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long...