Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolving Pensions, Ltd. which he said he had been preparing for months. Hereafter, said he, a seven-man board of directors would "assist me in completing the final chapter of the history we are writing for a better day." Furthermore, a national advisory committee chosen by Townsend Clubs would "counsel with me and with the board of directors...
...which was reminiscent of the Van Sweringens at their best. With $100,000 in cash they gained control of two life insurance companies with total assets of $170,000,000. Leader of the legal triumvirate was Dexter Hamilton, a brusque, 56-year-old onetime Texas judge who is general counsel for Southwestern Life Insurance Co. However, the company he counseled was controlled not by fellow-Texans but by a Manhattan investment trust run by David Meriwether Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...
...employ counsel to defend suits filed against his committee's activities by William Randolph Hearst and others (TIME, March 23), he wanted $10,000. Even more than the money, he wanted the moral support of the House and the White House. Therefore he put his request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable...
...trial at Governors Island last week Captain Fleischer dismissed all three accusations as "trivial." His chief counsel, white-mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...
...will continue for weeks. To give the hearings a special telephonic flavor, a luxurious courtlike hearing room in Washington's new Interstate Commerce Commission Building was equipped with an elaborate recording device which made a complete transcription of the proceedings, preserving for posterity even the whispered advice of counsel to witness...