Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calling a few more witnesses the defense rested its case, and the prosecution began to call witnesses from a group of about 100 whom it had ordered to be ready to appear. The purpose of calling these witnesses was to contradict the testimony of the defense witnesses. Congressman Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, attacked their testimony in crossexamination. He questioned one witness, trying to show lack of unity of command in the war games at Hawaii last summer. The witness, Major J. J. Bain, drew a distinction between "unity of command" and "unity of direction," and Mr. Reid insisted...
...were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased for a time even to follow. To save our position among the states of the world, we must at least support the new Court. It is not altru- ism that I counsel. It is not helping Europe. It is not sacrifice for the general good. It is selfishness for America. It is our own national self-respect...
...number of salary increases in the Internal Revenue Bureau were made. Sometimes the Treasury has been obliged to send $4,000-a-year men into court to fight lawyers receiving $50,000 for a single case. The Solicitor of Internal Revenue was made "General Counsel" with a salary of $10,000 instead of $6,000. The salaries of members of the Board of Tax Appeals were likewise increased from...
...Lansdowne came before the court with a lawyer, Joseph Davies of Wisconsin, onetime (1915-16) Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He insisted on making a statement for his client. The Court frowned upon him and ordered his silence. Witnesses were not entitled to counsel. Mr. Davies insisted. Rear Admiral Jones ordered a stalwart marine to take him from the room. Mrs. Lansdowne began by refusing to testify, but when questions were asked her, she began to talk and ended by testifying for three hours. She said Captain Foley had called upon her two days before her previous appearance before...
...with John K. Petre (whoever he was). The two ex-chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire and a devil of a fellow for secrecy and mystification. He kept his counsel, was enigmatically acquiescent with the broker chap. He made thousands in Touaregs (whatever they were), millions on the Paddenham Site (for some reason), millions more in Rotors (strange as it seemed...