Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend last March publicly assigned 90% of the National Townsend Weekly's profits to OARP "as long as there is need for it," he still owns a 50% interest in it. The Weekly, said he last week, is "worth $1,000,000." The committee's young Counsel James R. Sullivan of Kansas City quoted some letters written by Partner Townsend to Partner Clements last year...
John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...
...dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court battle...
...Federal Communications Commission's investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. were enlivened by digressions into lobbying, horse racing and cinema production (TIME, March 30 et seq.). In the matter of revealing what Congress had appropriated $750,000 to have revealed-the how and why of telephone rates-Commission Counsel Samuel Becker got next to nowhere. In the past fortnight, however, Counsel Becker has borne down more consistently on the prime purpose of the investigation, giving Commission accountants a chance to talk. Questions raised thereby put FCC in a better position to ask Congress last week for an additional...
...Seeking information on the meeting in 1927 at which the sale was decided upon, Counsel Becker subpoenaed A. T. & T. Directors George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; and David Franklin Houston, President of Manhattan's Mutual Life Insurance Co., onetime Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson. Neither could remember the reasons for the sale. C. A. T. & T. long-distance earnings between 1913 and 1935 were shown to have been $400,000,000, or an annual return of 10.9% on investment despite several voluntary rate cuts. In the same period the associated companies...