Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...technical point (an assistant to the Attorney General had unlawfully appeared before the investigating Special Grand Jury). Mr. McCoy, a Democrat appointed by President Wilson, is credited with knowing the law well. His technical point will presumably be sus- tained when Messrs. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel, appeal to a higher court. The Government will then be left the choice of abandoning criminal proceedings or seeking new indictments. New indictments for bribery they cannot seek, because, under the statute of limitations*, they cannot use evidence more than three years...
Arguing, therefore, that the Texas "white primary" law is virtual, if not actual defiance of the "race, color or servitude" provision of the Constitution, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has engaged counsel to carry an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Associated with the counsel will be Moorfield Storey, a leader of the bar in a city famous for its championship of the Negro−Boston...
...Modern Language Association of America. To the College he has not been in recent years so well known as formerly, because unable for special reasons to participate as fully as formerly in administrative and other affairs. But his interest in these matters has not diminished, not has his counsel failed. Those immediately charged with the duties that he will soon relinquish hope that in his well earned leisure he will continue to share with them the fruits of his experience...
...night train for Chicago puffed out of the Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come...
...Patten Inc. submitted to Mr. Woolley a contract for advertising. Said he: "I never sign contracts, but I agree to the terms." Van Patten Inc. claims that the contract, verbally agreed to, called for $60,000. Counsel for the Democrats claim that is absurd, as Mr. Woolley's total appropriation for all publicity was only...