Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Relations Counsel...
...stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders' suits (TIME, April 26, 1937), and in handling Mr. Hearst's financial affairs he has worked in close harmony with the Chase, Hearst's largest banking creditor...
...down his bonded indebtedness he floated stock. In 1930, when San Francisco Lawyer John Francis Neylan was his counsel, Hearst lumped together his six West Coast papers (on which he had previously borrowed $20,000,000), four other profitable newspapers and the superprofitable American Weekly into Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. He valued "circulation, press franchises, libraries, etc." at $75,000,000, and with a barrage of publicity denouncing phony stock schemes sold $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock to the public...
...ring. Last week, still broke and now divorced, he filed a petition in New York Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
...Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become counsel in the bank's liquidation; 3) to qualify for the county judge's $15,000 job, an Errors & Appeals lay judge resigned; 4) Governor Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey, political debtor and friend of Democratic Boss Frank Hague Sr. of Jersey City, appointed Frank Hague...