Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve hundred Kentuckians packed the New Castle courtroom for the inquest. First witness called was General Denhardt. Marching to the chair, he announced in a loud, clear voice that he declined to testify "on advice of counsel over my protest." Up from the buzzing crowd stepped a sheriff, clapped a hand on the bald and portly officer's shoulder, said: "General Denhardt, I have a warrant for your arrest...
Appearing as associate counsel for two of the three appellants-W. H. H. Chamberlin, Inc., E. C. Stearns & Co. and Associated Industries of New York State, Inc.-Lawyer Henry S. Fraser of Syracuse decried the law's justice in giving benefits to workers regardless of need or merit, implied that New York children would soon be chanting as did German children when social insurance was adopted...
Restraining his argument as he has restrained his resounding voice ever since Chief Justice Hughes asked him to quiet down during the Carter case. Chief Counsel Wood attacked the law strictly on constitutional grounds. His thesis was that, since the burden was laid solely on employers and on them equally regardless of unemployment conditions in their particular plants or industries, it violated both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment...
...utility counsel who came primed, after nearly a year of preparation, to convince Judge Mack that the Public Utility Act was unconstitutional, or at least to obtain a ruling on that point in order to appeal it, SEC's smart Attorney Robert Houghwout Jackson immediately opened a tricky gambit. He suggested that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could...
Outside the King's chauffeur put on such speed that only a most desperate chase could have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward...