Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counsel to AAA he was also a thorn in the paw of sturdy George Peek, his boss. Mr. Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President...
...roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe and Gardner Jackson slashed about them in the name of the consumer. Slow and steady Mr. Davis was not at home among such assistants, was not prepared to go their radical lengths. He held his hand, but the time came when the ax had to fall...
...late to save his friends, he was not too late to win renewed expressions of esteem from the Administration. He himself was named to a place on the new ''operating council" of AAA. A liberal friend of his, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, was appointed Consumers' counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned on a newshawk who remarked, "Well...
...Counsel Charlton Ogburn of A. F. of L., who had previously complained about the automotive elections. "The result of these elections," was President Roosevelt's sharp reply, "must be to provide for the first time conclusive evidence of how and by whom the employes desire to be represented...
...chattering, the yellowmen rushed ashore with their tale of ten cold-blooded murders by white pirates on the Yellow Sea. Ever since this revelation the four Germans and the Swiss have denied their guilt, trying to get their case appealed to a higher Japanese court. Last week their defense counsel, the Mayor of Port Arthur, argued crushingly in the Superior Court at Dairen, "There is no Japanese law covering piracy. The defendants can only be punished for having entered Dairen illegally...