Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Washington workout, the Champion's seconds made only one blunder, but it was an incredibly stupid one. At a Presidential press conference, it was made known that Mr. Roosevelt had broadcast an appeal to the nation's parsons asking for "counsel and advice," especially on "the new social security legislation just enacted." The replies were not expected before the President's return from "a short vacation." But in many a city many a preacher made public his reply even before the Presidential vacation began, and not all replies were characterized by pastoral calm. Most peppery...
Down from Manhattan and Philadelphia hurried crack power executives to observe the proceedings. Up from Washington hopped President Roosevelt's two trouble-shooting young legalites, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, co-authors of the original bill. SEC was represented by Chief Counsel John J. Burns. Also on hand was white-crowned Lawyer John William Davis, whose imposing presence generated much of the interest in an otherwise dull case...
...York Bar Association first recognized his ability by appointing him associate counsel for the ambulance chasing investigation in 1926 and the bankruptcy investigation in 1929. His performance in the latter won him an appointment though a Democrat, as assistant to Attorney-General Mitchell in charge of bank-ruptey investigation...
Preparing to rehash all the old familiar points of the case, Mooney's counsel during the first week introduced only one novelty: the theory that the fatal explosive was not planted in the street by Mooney or anyone else, but was tossed off a roof by unknown dynamiters. Admittedly the defense lost an opening play to the State's Deputy Attorney General when the Supreme Court refused to define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year...
...Baush counsel was Cummings & Lockivood, the Connecticut law firm of Attorney General Cummings, who once lost another Aluminum case, has never forgotten...