Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilks grew impatient with the laughter in the room, spoke up to Lawyer Pennypacker, who had walked back to the counsel table...
...Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was quoted as saying, "I have no squawk to make over the decision." Yet nobody doubted that there had been plenty of squawks at the AP's inner council table. Criticism roiled around the handling of the case by AP's counsel, John W. Davis...
Under his guidance the AP had refused to argue the facts in the early stages of the Watson case and merely denied the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. That some publishers thought Lawyer Davis had blundered was as obvious as a nosebleed when ANPA's general counsel, Elisha Hanson, reminded the ANPA convention that the Watson case had been presented to the Supreme Court "absolutely bare of any facts in the record before the court to disprove the allegation of a violation of the law by the petitioners...
Potent guardian of these and 39 other lines, comprising the most important Lakes shippers, is the Lake Carriers Association of Cleveland, which trains seamen, presses harbor development, hires icebreakers and employs Newton D. Baker as general counsel. In the face of the new amendments to the Seaman's Act of 1915, requiring a three-watch system on all freighters, which will add about 20% to lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week...
...Polish Jew who arrived in the U. S. as a boy, Barnet Hodes has made the corporation counsel's office the city's law office in fact as well as in name. Since 1933 six separate law offices representing the city have been combined, sorely needed records kept where records never existed before. Says the Illinois Bar Journal of busy Mr. Hodes' activities: "Probably nothing more dramatic in the field of public law has taken place in recent years than this 'renovation.' " Says Barnet Hodes: "Sure, I'm a politician. I'm here...