Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In practice there has been only a "Big Two.'' Suspicious of Mr. Dubinsky's continued friendliness with William Green and Matthew Woll of A. F. of L., Messrs. Lewis & Hillman simply ignored his counsel. Pushed in opposite directions by factions in his own union, torn between his high faith in the C. I. O. cause and his personal loyalty to A. F. of L. (he was the first Jew on the A. F. of L. executive council), David Dubinsky found himself trying to ride two horses...
...service for the New Deal began as general counsel for RFC, having been hired away from the Farm Board to serve Jesse Jones in 1932. When, working with RFC's staff of 75 lawyers as many as 18 hours a day during the bank holiday, he managed to keep abreast of the tremendous legal complexities involved in demands for RFC help from thousands of banks in 48 States, Attorney General Cummings was impressed. When New Dealer Cummings borrowed Lawyer Reed to conduct the Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court...
...dinner table in Manhattan frequently gather some 20 of the ace propagandists in the U. S. This unpublicized, high-powered group calls itself the Council on Public Opinion, chairman is the nation's No. 1 publicist, dark, Machiavellian Edward L. Bernays. Others: General Motors' Public Relations Counsel Paul Willard Garrett, American Iron and Steel Institute's John Wiley Hill, Rockefeller...
...rules of the Ames Competition expressly provide that decisions shall NOT be made upon the merits of the case (the law) but upon the manner in which counsel have presented their respective side of the argument. The judges are to consider only the structure of the briefs, the treatment of authorities, the skill shown in answering questions asked by the court, and the mastery of the technique of oral advocacy displayed by rival counsel, in arriving at their conclusion. Mr. Reed would not be embarrassed at having to make a decision of this nature and in no way would...
Though some 40 suits are to be filed against Mayor Hague's officials by C. I. 0. organizers and sympathizers, the C. I. O. places most faith in one filed last week by C. I. O. Counsel Dean Spaulding Frazer of the Newark University Law School in Federal Court on the ground that the plaintiffs -the Civil Liberties Union, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and several C. I. O. unions-were "without adequate remedy in the local court of law." In substance, they asked for a perpetual injunction to restrain Mayor Hague from ignoring the Bill of Rights...