Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blackmer has retained counsel to recover his passport, arguing that he paid $10 for it and therefore it is his property in perpetuum. Experts on international law, however, considered that the right to revoke a passport is included in the Secretary of State's authority to "grant and issue passports and ... to refuse them at his discretion." During the World War numerous passports were withdrawn and revoked...
...Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones, skillful pilot; Chester W. Cuthell, onetime U. S. Shipping Board counsel. It seemed likely that this group would form a huge corporation, would put ships in the skies to compete with the Bellanca planes over the New York-Chicago route, would eventually link every U. S. metropolis...
...Anti-Saloon League today is one of the nation's most powerful organizations. Wets have termed it the Fourth Branch of the Government (legislative, judicial and executive being the other three); have roared against its "invisible power." While its founders were meeting in Oberlin, its present General Counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, was announcing a funding-program of $300,000 a year for the next two years. Denying that this money ($600,000 in all) was to be used against Wet presidential candidates, Mr. Wheeler said that only the "moderate sum" of $50,000 would be used politically, the remainder...
...Twas a fat oyster; and the present Irish Free State was suing to obtain this sum on the ground that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...
Bickering stockholders and creditors of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. barkened to the counsel of Owen D. Young and last week agreed to cease their years of quarrels and lawsuits...