Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hotel ballroom in Detroit, was continued the tax suit whereby Secretary of the Treasury Mellon hopes to take some $34,000,000 from Senator James Couzem and the other Ford stockholders who sold out to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 (TiME, Jan. 17). Young Alexander W. Gregg, chief counsel for the Government, waged a highly technical battle with the defense attorneys among some 10,000 exhibits. But the public eye centred on that exhibit which told of the earnings of the Ford Motor Co. from 1904 to 1919. The figures...
Typical British Account. "The famous cinema comedian, Charles Chaplin, became the defendant in an action for divorce begun yesterday at Los Angeles, the centre of his motion picture activities in the States. Counsel for Mrs. Chaplin secured an injunction restraining him from disposing of his funds or property in California which are said to have a value...
...greatest financial authority in Con- gress) while the tax bill was being debated in the Senate. The Coolidge Administration is proud of the 1924 tax law-and so is Mr. Gregg, no doubt. In 1925 he was made Solicitor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Now he is chief counsel for the Government in the Detroit suit, where Secretary Mellon and Senator Couzens are trying to effect a pride's purge over a few million dollars...
...modern times, of course, a Canon need not be in residence. His duties, not sharply defined, are as advisory counsel to a Bishop...
Samuel Untermeyer, corporation lawyer: "My counsel fees are among the highest in the profession. For $100 no one can hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original...