Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although these are virtually all whom the American Hebrew considers worthy of notice, there are still others, most of them young, and in nominally unimportant positions. Example: Benjamin Victor Cohen, 40, a Brain Trust attorney who is PWA's assistant general counsel. He had a large hand in drafting the Stock Exchange Control Bill and, contrary to all rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like...
...ahead of its normal schedule. At precisely the same moment the New York Stock Exchange was opening for the last session in the third week of a steady decline. Three hours later the bill was passed, 62-to-13. Only Stock Exchange official present in the gallery was its counsel, Roland Redmond...
...Hyde; we want to kill the jackal but save the hide." When the House passed (280-to-84) the bill and sent it to the Senate, everyone knew that the final draft, with promised revisions, would ultimately be written in conference. Only Ferdinand Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what...
...present his offices are in Wall Street and one of his favorite beasts is that he has run on every conceivable ticket for membership in the House of Representatives and that he has never won. One of his latest achievements is the counsel which he has procured for the newsboys in their protest to the NRA code...
Last week AP had its annual meeting in the new Waldorf-Astoria, and out came the old hatchet. This time it was brandished over the question of news pictures. First to pick it up was Hearst's brainy general counsel, hawk-nosed John Francis Neylan of San Francisco...