Word: counseled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arthur Garfield Hays, of the counsel for the defense at the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee two years ago, will speak at the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock tomorrow. Mr. Hays has been in Russia during the past summer and his talk is expected to be on the results of his observations in the Slavic country...
During recent years the visiting speaker has waged a vigorous fight in his capacity as a lawyer against repressive measures. He is now chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and has figured in many important cases recently. Last spring he came to Boston to defend Mr. H. L. Mencken during his trial here in connection with the publishing of the story "Hatrack" in the American Mercury magazine. The appearance of Mr. Hays will open the Liberal Club's speakers program for the year on which are the names of several noted men whose dates will be announced definitely...
Denial of a new trial was handed down last May. But, eloquent Boston lawyer William G. Thompson, counsel for Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was in no mood to toss aside lightly his six years' labor, particularly when he still holds two powerful items of evidence...
...recreation from his daily labors of an expert accountant, he pored over books of philosophy and psychology. These explorations had led him far from the faith of his race, but his Jewish neighbors and landlady found him most kindly, gentle, a patient teacher of any who sought his counsel...
...side of the court, collapsed in a chair. Helen Wills, convalescent, seemed the stronger of the two. She strode composedly into the Westchester Biltmore clubhouse. That evening a telegram came from her father advising her to stop playing tennis for three months. A Manhattan doctor examined her, emphasized this counsel, and as if everything had been settled the West Side Tennis Club confirmed the rumor that she would not defend her title this year Tilden. In the East-West team matches at Forest Hills, Tilden beat William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston...