Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution relieving the Government's special counsel in Oil Scandal cases from the law prohibiting U. S. employes from representing law clients against the U. S. in other suits...
...their positions are: 1914, Boykin C. Wright, senior partner, Cotton & Franklin, New York; 1915, Robert P. Patterson, partner, Webb, Patterson & Hadley, New York; 1916, Gerard C. Henderson,* senior partner, Cravath, Henderson & Degersdorff, New York; 1917, Charles Bunn, partner, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler, St. Paul; 1918, Lloyd H. Landau, special counsel, Public Service, St. Louis; 1919, George E. Osborne, Professor of Law at Stanford University; 1920, Cloyd Laporte, junior partner, Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine, New York; 1921, Donald C. Swatland, junior partner, Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood, New York; 1922, Bertram F. Willcox, junior partner, Schurman, Wiley & Willcox, New York...
...rapid was the movement in official circles that officers of the Dramatic Club, consulting with counsel, had no opportunity to offer the book of the play to the authorities for discussion. Newspaper extras announcing the censorship of the production were on the streets before counsel for the club had approached the city fathers...
...excerpts from a public statement, Leatherbee said in behalf of the Club as a whole, "We feel that it would have been fair and kind to the ladies of the cast, to say the least, if the mayor, before taking such drastic action, had at least communicated with our counsel and given us an opportunity to see what we could do by voluntary action to avoid the catastrophe...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...