Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...
...personally acquainted with either Mr. Davis, or Mr. Wyzanski and I have no interest in the outcome of this case; but, in the interest of fair play, and as a lawyer, I do believe that, if the ability displayed at this hearing by the respective counsel for the parties were to be weighed, in the light of "equal justice under law," the palm would undoubtedly go to Charles E. Wyzanski...
...Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York's 1935 anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
...that General Motors' 342,384 stockholders had turned out to rule their company, but that in the room, on the seventh floor of the Du Pont Building, there were but 20 chairs at meeting time. Presiding was heavyset, florid John Thomas Smith, GM vice president and general counsel. Absent were President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and 30 other directors...
...about whom, the quarrel got into court because Daughter Roberta thought she had been slandered. Attorney Andrews, she said, had publicly stated that Sister Aimee had been "threatened, intimidated, coerced and blackmailed"-presumably by her daughter. For this Daughter Roberta demanded $150,000 damages from her mother's counsel...