Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively trial. Defense counsel protested that since the State Legislature had voted the boys each a set of false legs along with lifetime sinecures in the State Highway Commission, the boys should have appeared in court on their new underpinnings instead of on short crutches (see cut). Shropshire explained that they had not learned to use the new legs yet. Barnes seldom said anything except: "I disremember." Prosecutor John Carpenter also livened things up by appearing every day in a gayer ensemble than the day before, while Judge Wilson ("Coot") Warlick maintained a running fire of admonition from the bench...
...Reports, cinema trade paper. Actually, the persons mentioned had not been indicted in Ontario but merely mentioned in an indictment brought against others. Harrison's Reports and The Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages, $200 for actual damages to Lawyer Hess...
Commissioner Robert E. Healy is a Vermonter and nominally a Republican but long service as counsel to the Federal Trade Commission's utility investigation gave him rather a jaundiced opinion of Big Business. His specialty is the legal division. Commissioner George C. Mathews is also a nominal Republican. President Roosevelt picked him for his record on Wisconsin's liberal public service body to serve on the Federal Trade Commission...
Below the Commissioners, zeal and experience are more evenly balanced. General Counsel John J. Burns, like Commissioner Landis, was a Harvard Law School professor. Self-made son of Boston Irish immigrants, he was elevated to the Massachusetts Superior Court bench before he was 30, quitting three years later to join the New Deal...
...trustees asked $55,000 each. Judge Nields allowed one $18,000, the other $12,500. The third trustee asked $110,000, was granted $27,500. Highest claim was made by a Manhattan lawyer named Jacob S. Demov, who had already received $25,000 as associate counsel to the trustees. In addition he asked...