Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington lawyers are dubious, do not believe the Supreme Court will reverse itself on the strength of the Morris letter. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, archfoe of John Barleycorn was scornful, said: "Morris's opinion was only his lone opinion, in a hopeless minority...
...Ford has hired able defense counsel, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri (TIME, March 7), for whose sharp tongue and inquisitorial powers many a lawyer yearns. The defense contends that there is no need of Mr. Ford taking the witness stand or of dragging in the question of race prejudice. Said Mr. Reed: "Neither the principles of co-operative marketing nor the Jewish race is on trial. . , . We are accused of libeling Mr. Sapiro, and it is therefore his work and the plan which he expounded, that we seek to test. We claim that he was selfish...
...understand how he did it. He had played football at Coe College (Iowa), plunged into the law at Yale, cavorted with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, dabbled in politics in South Dakota. But he was and is a shrewd lawyer. The Standard Oil wanted him. Soon the general counsel was made chairman of the board (1918).* He summoned lethargic directors to thrice-weekly meetings, made them agree unanimously on every decision. Under the Stewart impetus the company grew big with physical properties and profits. More than 15,000 employe stockholders shared the resulting pleasures...
...workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency is to be rebuilt-how, is not divulged. Ufa might better have shut the eyes of its great cameras than permit them to reflect nonsense in such grandeur...
...Result: he was scheduled to appear next week in federal court, Grand Rapids, to defend a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by famed farm-organizer, Aaron Sapiro, Jew, of Chicago. Inconspicuously, came news that Senator Reed had been retained as Mr. Ford's chief counsel. Ford-Reed-the hyphen would certainly not injure Presidential-Candidate Reed...