Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown-haired and youthful-looking, sitting as chairman at the centre of the Committee table with his pointed chin thrust out, looked as if he were oppressed by the knowledge that the eyes of the nation were on him. At his elbow, equally intent, sat the Committee's counsel, bushy-browed Stephen Raushenbush, who had conscientiously sifted thousands & thousands of documents in preparation for the hearing. Senator Vandenburg smoked a cigar, tried to look urbane. Senator Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders of the American Legion...
Actually, only Senator Clark made any noticeable effort to stir up scandal. Committee Counsel Raushenbush, far from being a bitter prosecutor like Ferdinand Pecora, was obviously making no effort to send his witnesses to jail, had no belief that the men before him were villains, aimed at no more than to show that war trade and war finance are a danger to peace. Chairman Nye, too, was content with building up a ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should...
Applying for a pistol permit, Lawyer Charles Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, town councilman of Harrison, N. Y., gave as character references Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Hays, J. Edgar Hoover and George William Cardinal Mundelein, got the permit...
President Ivey was Virginia-Carolina's counsel in 1932, when internal troubles over a proposed merger with an Armour & Co. fertilizing subsidiary brought Mr. Kemp to the fore and began Virginia-Carolina's warfare. A tightlipped, poker-faced Baptist, Mr. Ivey is 50, a Georgia farm-boy with a law degree from Columbia University who was "reared between the plough-handles." 1886-1936 "At the annual meeting in 1886, Mr. Coolidge, then Treasurer, called your attention to the trend of [the cotton] industry southward. In 1889, 1891, 1896 and 1897 he stressed the same idea, pointing...
Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels 2nd, who will soon set up in Manhattan a high-powered bureau of Ethiopian information, predicts that the world's news services, which he estimates to have spent over $1,000,000 in Ethiopia, will soon withdraw most of their correspondents, since the nature of the Empire makes it impossible to achieve news coverage. Mr. Israels said that the Emperor at parting told him: "Remember always that our greatest weapon against Italy is world public opinion...