Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plants by rail, strikers put ties on the tracks, threatened the train crews until they retired "in fear of bodily injury." This brought the railroads into the picture: Pennsylvania, B & O and Erie. They appealed to the courts for an injunction to prevent strikers from blocking their tracks. S.W.O.C. counsel replied that the railroads were not acting on their own behalf but merely as a catspaw for the steel companies...
...foreground appears the bronze gate giving access to the enclosure reserved for counsel. In their favorite and ill-assorted chairs, the Justices relax in characteristic attitudes. At the left Justice Roberts, whose recent swing to the liberals has resulted in a series of decisions upholding the New Deal, pays close attention to the white-haired attorney (centre) arguing before the Court. Next comes conservative Justice Butler, hunched in his little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers...
...Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, at 39 was president of International Paper Co., world's largest paper maker. Last year Mr. Graustein and International Paper parted company (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936), and Mr. Graustein began 'practicing corporate law in Manhattan. Last week, at 51, he was appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganization for the U. S. Maritime Commission, now busy in Washington on the vast job of subsidizing and coordinating the doddering U. S. merchant marine (TIME, March...
...arrangement effected years ago, the press stood no death watch on Rockefeller as it does on other aged and ailing celebrities. Instead, his Manhattan public relations counsel, T. J. Ross (successor to Ivy Lee), telephoned the news to major press agencies...
...decision might become a potent weapon in (he war on Bigness. The words of Justice Roberts meant that through tax discrimination one State could strike at a whole corporation, not simply that part of the corporation doing business within its boundaries. Said Henry Ward Beer, old-time trial counsel to the Federal Trade Commission: "The long advocated amendment of our anti-trust laws to prevent the growth of monopoly has been effectively accomplished through the means of taxation...