Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have breakfast with him. He immediately began to talk again about the case and pulled out of his pocket a portion of the charge which he was to deliver, as I understood it, on that day. He read parts of it to me with comments like this: 'Counsel for defense said so and so yesterday, and this is my reply.' He then read a part of the charge and said, 'I think that that will hold him, don't you?' "I tried my best to avoid these conversations and I told the head waiter...
Buck, 21, feeble-minded state asylum inmate, with a feeble-minded mother and a feeble-minded illegitimate child, protested sterilization proceedings against her. Counsel argued that sterilization was never justifiable, that Miss Buck was being discriminated against since many a feeble-minded woman not under state care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such...
...Ledbetter Lee, famed publicity counsel, did an unusual thing last week by printing above his own signature a commendation of the $3,500,000 that Harvard Law School is collecting for its endowment fund. He printed...
...most invigorating things which one sees on returning to Harvard after an absence of 22 years. They value the assistance of the tutors more and more as they advance from the Sophomore to the Senior year. This is partly, of course, as a source of counsel and ghostly strength as the general examinations approach. To the Sophomore, these examinations seem merely one far-off, diabolical event; to the Senior, they seem imminent and awful. All students take their work with their tutors more and more seriously, but it would be a great mistake, as has been intimated, to suppose that...
...that, but whatever I said, I said." The Court: "It is suggested by the plaintiff that you may wish to apologize." Sari Fedak: "What? Certainly not! Why, if I read that I had apologized to Vilma Banky in tomorrow's papers I would die of apoplexy!" When counsel had presented their arguments, the Court declared: "No witness has been produced who actually heard the imputed words uttered by the defendant. . . . The case is dismissed. ... I will add my personal conviction that between two great actresses, each such an adornment to the national stage, there could have passed no phrase...