Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working as ticket agent and brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad to earn his way through Boston Latin School and Harvard served slow-spoken, bespectacled, 225-lb. Thomas Charles O'Brien in good stead. Soon after he had his law degree he became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
Last week's decision of a Circuit Court in New Orleans that the National Labor Relations Act did not apply to manufacturers gave an idea to the AP's counsel, white-crowned John William Davis. First he pointed out that the AP is not run for profit, can declare no dividends, then ingeniously argued: "This case falls in the classification of manufacture and not in interstate commerce. News is manufactured over editorial cables, while Bessemer Steel may be manufactured by the open-hearth process. News comes in as raw material and is put in final shape by editorial...
...this Mr. Ernst's Associate Counsel Callman Gottesman added, out of court, a sarcastic crack: "Many readers of the Associated Press have doubtless long suspected them of manufacturing news, but never expected the company's learned attorney to so admit in open court...
Indiana University (Bloomington) General Counsel Herman Oliphant of the U. S. Treasury Department LL.D...
Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...