Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about once more, Broker Burton, who had been ordered by the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association to turn in his amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision...
...September was Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, N. J.. whose sponsors told the House they had boomed him for U. S. Attorney General to Alf M. Landon last autumn. Now 48, Lawyer Vanderbilt has been teaching law at New York University for 23 years, been Essex County Counsel for 16 years, chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey since...
...Chicago's Bank Night row would end or whether theatre patrons would ever get the $100,000 in prizes which have drawn them into Chicago theatres, there seemed no way of guessing until the 16 arrested theatre managers' cases are heard in court next week. Meanwhile, Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes promised that police would continue to raid Chicago theatres that gave away prizes...
Originally conceived in a small independent station as an advice hour in which Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest...
...Chicago for the time being, Mr. Milton last week went to Washington to explain to the Securities & Exchange Commission about the complicated maze of Equity Corp. Before going into the story of each of 44 companies which have been involved in the investment trust's activities, SEC Counsel David Schenker drew from Mr. Rockefeller's son-in-law the story of how he got into Equity Corp. For $41,000 cash and 19,000 shares of an inactive insurance stock, Mr. Milton and Ellery Huntington Jr. eventually acquired control of Equity, which managed companies with assets...