Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District of Columbia, to succeed John Jacob Esch on the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Coolidge had tried to keep Mr. Esch, but the Senate repeatedly refused to believe that Mr. Esch had not overinterpreted the Commission's function and power. Mr. Farrell, Canadian-born, had been retained as counsel for 27 years by the I. C. C., latterly as chief counsel. He is a Democrat, but party is supposed to be forgotten...
...Passed Senator Norris' resolution asking the Supreme Court to permit special counsel to intervene in the valuation test case of the St. Louis and O'Fallon Railroad...
Southerners took what counsel and comfort they could from Major General Behan's record, in the face of a situation in the North over which they had much concern but no control. For the first time in 27 years, a Negro was going to Congress. In Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...
...dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions of Show Boat, his greatest hit. He debated with himself whether to hire famed Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel), and he took counsel with himself, while a continent trembled, whether to produce another Follies. Also he wondered how things would go with Billie Burke when she returned to the stage after long absence, as the star of The Happy Husband...
Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...