Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor J. C. Walton, under impeachment trial before the State Senate of Oklahoma, was found guilty and removed from office after a sensational trial. As the prosecution was completing its case, the Governor suddenly rose and with his counsel and family left the chamber, saying he was not getting a fair trial. As a result the defense presented no case. He will carry the fight to Federal courts...
Born in Potsdam, N. Y., he has lived in Minnesota since his youth. He had only a common school education; then studied law. He made his fortune?he is a millionaire?as a corporation lawyer. But he is also a " trust buster." He was counsel for the Government in dissolution suits against the Standard Oil Co., the Paper Trust, the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. He has been President of the American Bar Association...
Congressional investigators functioning in Washington brought forth sensations in an investigation of the Veterans' Bureau. Senators Reed of Pennsylvania, Walsh of Massachusetts and Oddie of Nevada as a special investigating committee of the Senate held hearings at which Major General John F. O'Ryan, counsel for the committee, presented evidence which he has been gathering since last March. The evidence heard accused Colonel Charles Robert Forbes, retired head of the Veterans' Bureau, of extravagance, mismanagement, gross corruption. Colonel Forbes' defense was scheduled to be heard later...
...five justices in business attire, in a 30-foot London room, decide legal rights affecting one-fourth of the world's population. The procedure is extremely simple and uncomplicated. Unlimited argument is allowed on cases before the court, and oftentimes immediate oral decisions are rendered to the waiting counsel. Mr. Beck said: "Of all courts that I have seen, it is the simplest in form and procedure." There are no formal or lengthy " briefs," although there is a printed summary of the essential facts and the legal points involved, which is called " the case." The arguments are often inordinately...
...Privy Council, arguments are largely conversation, and counsel face the lord justices across a narrow table. In the Supreme Court, arguments are formal and often forensic, and the justices sit upon an elevated bench, with counsel standing at a considerable distance below...