Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will?attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...
...that prestige and public confidence began to attach themselves to his labors in great quantity. Two state investigations, following each other in quick succession, provided the springboard for his leap into general esteem. To State Senator Frederick C. Stevens of New York he owed his appointment as counsel to the legislative committee investigating the cost of gas. The gas companies had fixed it at $1 per null cubic feet, declared the figure could not be slashed. Counsel Hughes proved that 80¢ was ample. The reports and bills he drafted were upheld by the courts and led to the naming...
...Childs' executive office is war, with hard feeling, recrimination and bitter, bitter words. Last week came upheaval, with casualties of one president, one secretary, one legal counsel, one Executive Committee. In their places came a new president, new secretary, two new vice presidents, no new Executive Committee. Victorious, at least temporarily, was Founder William Childs, who last December was deposed as President and installed in theoretical passivity as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Childs regarded his Chairmanship as no honorary position. Securing a 6 to 2 control of the directors, he last week bodily removed the "usurping" executives and replaced...
Owen D. Young himself is 54, became Chairman of General Electric at 47, was merely counsel for General Electric at 39, probably chafes at the knowledge he was as good a "Young Man" as Parker Gilbert at 32, but held down by old fogies. John Pierpont Morgan is 61, never had to climb, like onetime plowboy Young...
...half so wicked as the district attorney would like to make the jury believe. She has no witnesses, however, and her case begins to look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring the doubtful jury around from a position of cold hostility to warm and enthusiastic support. It is in this power to away the feelings of the audience from one side...