Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Counsel for Mr. Sinclair (Martin W. Littleton, G. T. Stanford, Colonel J. William Zevely and George P. Hoover) filed a demurrer objecting: 1) that the Senate had no authority to compel a man to disclose his private affairs; 2) that the inquiry in question was of a judicial nature and therefore out of the Senate's scope of action; 3) that the Senate Investigating Committee had no jurisdiction because a resolution had been passed as a result of the inquiry, prior to the alleged offense; 4) that the indictment charged no offense...
Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, maintained that Congress was within its rights in demanding in- formation which might bear on legislation...
...maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, (TIME, Jan. 28), it was proposed to install oil-burning boilers in the Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, New York, Texas. Whereupon Premier MacDonald declared in the British House of Commons that this action would be a violation of the naval limitation treaty. After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls for the conversion of the six defective battleships into oil-burners, blister protection against submarines, further deck protection against...
This, according to counsel for the defendants, meant little or nothing. "Mr. Tomadelli never claimed that he had perfected the lamp," he stated. "He had not. He was an inventor working on an invention. The public bought the stock in the hope that the invention would be made commercially success...
...understood that the Undergraduate Committee will not pass on any speaker without first consulting the opinion of the Governing Board and seeking other mature counsel. We suggest that the Governing Board appoint a person, perhaps the Chairman of the Speakers Committee to attend in an advisory capacity meetings of the Undergraduate Committee at which possible speakers are to be discussed...