Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, who twice gave Senator Reed tit for tat, mocking the Senator's gestures of eyebrow and cigar with his own eyebrows and a busy pencil (See PROHIBITION...
...nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary...
Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...
Last week the case came up in court. Counsel for the Cohens argued that the plaintiff is really a baroness, wife of Leopold Frederick Salvatore Baron Popper de Podhragy, that thus she is no longer Jeritza, has no more right to the name than have the Cohens. But Federal Judge Thatcher thought differently, decided in favor of "La Jeritza", ordered the Cohens to cease using her name...
...name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...