Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of the court was Crampton Harris of Birmingham, Ala., Senator Black's onetime law partner, who had been hired as special counsel for the Lobby Investigation. Said Attorney Harris: "It is difficult to conceive of any injury at all resulting from obedience to the [Senate] subpoena unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge...
...Defense. The New Deal did not pick up the blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce...
...interests in the country was taking a stand - most of them against the Guild. The Uptown Retail Guild, which includes most Manhattan shops above 42nd Street, was almost alone in backing the Guild, while the National Retail 'Dry Goods Association sided with Associated Merchandising Corp., gave out its counsel's opinion that the Guild's activities were in violation of the anti-trust laws. It remained for Filene's to bring the issue to court, which Filene's did this month by filing an application for injunction with an elaborate bill of complaints...
Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
...meeting of the Church League for Industrial Democracy that scandalized B. & O.'s tall, arrow-straight John Cornwell, 68, who attends Episcopal churches. Said General Counsel Cornwell to a Y. M. C. A. gathering in Baltimore last week: "My hair stood on end when I read those resolutions. I drew the line when I saw they advocated social equality with Negroes in church offices and they wanted to stop those who would penalize overthrow of our government by force. ... If that's going to be the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, I'm going...