Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acquitted, last spring, of contempt, Col. Stewart went on trial for perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota...
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet with the hearty approval of the entire banking community here . . . have...
...classes, but a guild of young boys whose ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development of "The Arts of the Building Trade...
...five hundred thousand dollars five-year notes; to pay balance of Federal estate and California inheritance tax on $42,000,000 estate of California's most famed book-collector; the library, now a public possession, is not among assets securing loan; Harris Forbes & Co., E. H. Rollins & Sons; counsel: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers (Los Angeles...
Pacific Western Oil Co.: Fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars 15-year debentures; to help purchase California oil properties of Petroleum Securities Co. (Edward L. Doheny) covering 40,000 acres, valued at 43 million dollars; Blyth, Witter & Co., J. & W. Seligman & Co.; counsel: Sullivan and Cromwell, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood (Manhattan) Loeb, Walker & Loeb (Los Angeles...