Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock away from his duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett to preside. The Government registered 150 witnesses. Chief defense counsel was a local attorney named Hugh M. Wilkinson, loud-voiced onetime law partner of Huey Long. According to intimates, he was Defendant Shushan's second choice, picked on Long's personal orders...
...before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel Wilkinson...
...Legislature, so that his alcoholic skirts are neutrally clean both in Kansas and the rest of the country. Nationally the Governor is not without potent connections. Last week he was visiting Oilman Frank Phillips on the Phillips ranch near Bartlesville, Okla. Another important friend is John Daniel Miller Hamilton, counsel for the Republican National Committee and organizer of the Grass Roots Conference, who was selected last month to set up the G. O. P.'s Western campaign headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Hearst. Mr. Landon's most voluble backer to date, the Governor has never met. True...
...instigation of the company, Dentist Lautenbach had signed the papers necessary to permit Mr. Davis to participate in the trustees' action. He served without fee. But since he is also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility Act to court-particularly an opportunity in which the constitutional defense will be in the hands, not of the Government, but of lawyers for an investment trust which would prefer to see American States liquidated rather than reorganized...
...They [Messrs. Burns, Cohen & Corcoran] have chosen to come in here as friends of the court with what they are pleased to call suggestions, and I may add, measuring my words, that the so-called suggestions made by the chief counsel of the SEC would have been offensive to the dignity of a police court in his State of Massachusetts...