Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without...
...beautiful a thing is judgment for gray hairs and for elders to know counsel! How beautiful is the wisdom of old men, and thought and counsel to men that are in honour! Much experience is the crown of old men; and their glorying is the fear of the Lord...
...Committee elected a fortnight ago began laying the foundation for its investigation. It granted to counsel for the Attorney General the right to cross-examine witnesses before it, within limits, and to present names of witnesses whom, at its discretion, the Committee might subpoena. When the time comes, the hearings will doubtless...
Besides, the Senate Committee had secured some delightful messages. A few of them were in code-apparently in two or more codes; they mentioned several Senators and Francis H. McAdoo (son of William G.), A. Mitchell Palmer, Wilton J. Lambert (all attorneys for Mr. McLean), J. W. Zevely (counsel for Mr. Sinclair). It was very interesting. Mr. McLean received more publicity than has been his lot in many moons...
Prize. The general give-and-take of counsel and advice was interrupted by the announcement of a prize. It is a peace prize to be awarded for a 5,000-(or less) word plan. But the plan must be nonpolitical. It must be a plan to promote peace by education. [This was the great theme ot an educational convention in San Francisco last year.] The prize is $25,000. Its giver is Raphael Herman†, of Detroit. Members of the jury of award include: Banker Robinson of Los Angeles, President Jones of the N. E. A., Governor Baxter of Maine...