Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Reich. The Western Powers want a powerless Germany, the same as was created through the Westphalian Peace of 1648."* These words were addressed to Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter -taken in M. Reynaud's office on the occasion of Mr. Welles's visit...
...Supreme Court had one of the merriest times in its history, in 1888, during an infringement suit involving men's underwear. Contested device: a reinforcing patch at the crotch to prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...
...Cantwells were all arrested for soliciting money without a permit and for breaking the peace. Jehovah's Witnesses are used to that, and to fighting their cases through the courts, with counsel supplied by their organization in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Jesse Cantwell. By last week his case had reached the U. S. Supreme Court.* His lawyer, Hayden C. Covington of Brooklyn, argued that the conviction violated Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes interrupted sternly...
John McLane Clark, who went to Harvard in 1938 as an editorial writer for the Washington Post, is now in Geneva with the International Labor Office as press relations counsel. Hilary Herbert Lyons Jr. of the Mobile Press Register became a Sunday feature writer for the New York Times. Louis Lyons of the Boston Globe, after a year as a fellow, himself succeeded Archibald MacLeish (now Librarian of Congress) as curator of the Nieman Foundation. The rest of last year's fellows went home to bigger salaries, better assignments...
...trial opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...