Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count the seven buttons on each of their shoes, told them the shoes together had 13 buttons, then waited to be rebutted. He started on algebra when Daughter Nor was 12, changing schools...
Most bumptious reaction came from the American Booksellers Association, still glowing from Doubleday, Doran's triumph over Macy's in the court battle on New York's Fair Trade Act (TIME. March 22). In solemn glee A. B. A.'s Counsel Crichton Clarke called a stenographer, dictated a statement pointing out that no stores in Macy's own trading area would be favored with the new service. "Macy's does not care how much its private brands are cut in other markets," said Mr. Clarke, "but it will not permit them...
...refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi and ex-Congressman-Lobbyist Loring Black of New York, both respected by their ex-colleagues, shouldered the contact work. A dozen lawyer-lobbyists and refiner-lobbyists, headed by General Counsel H. Beach Carpenter, stood ready at all times to see that the Congress did not lack for convincing information. Why, demanded the lobbyists, enlarge an industry off-shore when the same industry was at 62% capacity on the continent...
...humid afternoon, a night club show, a church meeting, and an election. Winner in a spirited campaign for Association president was wizened, spry little William Lepré Houston, long a law professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston are the only two Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree...
...effect of Andrews' cavalier administration. Having been a vice-president and director of the old Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. and a director of its successor, Graham Paige, he also knew a great deal about the independent automobile business. In the spring of 1936 Bradley took counsel with Hupp's director of sales and chief engineer, drew up an analysis of the company which he put before the directors in June. Gist of it was that with Hupmobile's reputation still high among car-owners* all Hupp needed was working capital and a new car. The company...