Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finance companies did not hire Mr. Croy. I, as counsel for Commercial Credit Co., appeared before Judge Geiger in the proceedings to which you refer. The record of those proceedings clearly shows that Commercial Credit Co. had nothing whatever to do with the employment of Mr. Croy. Neither it nor any of its representatives knew anything about the matter. Counsel for another finance company took sole and personal responsibility for the employment of Mr. Croy, and he stated to the Court that he had not consulted with any other company when he employed Mr. Croy...
Before a Roman Catholic woman gets her to a nunnery, she must take counsel with the superior of the convent she has chosen. If she appears to have a true vocation, she is admitted to the sisterhood as a postulant, to undergo at least three months of religious life before being professed as a novice. Last week in San Antonio, Tex., when five postulants entered the convent of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament-a teaching order which has labored ably in the U. S. since 1853-they made news because: 1) they were a mother and four daughters...
...actually drafts the Congress' masterpieces of unintelligible taxation is the legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great...
...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...when the California Chain Stores Association hired the big Chicago advertising agency of Lord & Thomas to help it defeat a chain-store tax (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936). Lord & Thomas put young Theodore W. Braun on the job. Ted Braun had made something of a reputation as a marketing counsel in Los Angeles. As general manager of the anti-chain-store-tax campaign, he taught California farmers that the chain stores were their customers and friends, and the tax was defeated. As part of Ted Braun's anti-tax campaign, the National Association of Food Chains, represented by the heads...