Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness stand. Secretary Johnson had testified that he himself prepared his employer's 1931 tax return, that, in the confusion of his departure for London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Mr. Mellon barely glanced at it, did not swear to it. But Counsel Hogan announced that when he took the stand Mr. Mellon would assume full responsibility for the return...
...week's end the Government finished cross-examining Secretary Johnson, turned him back to counsel for Mellon. For two and one-half hours, face flushed and eyes snapping, Lawyer Hogan peppered the Government's charges and innuendoes with crackling sarcasm and Irish wit. But when the fireworks were over the only memorable fact to stand revealed was that in 1931 Andrew Mellon was worth some...
...Houghwout Jackson, 43, the Mellon hearings meant a maiden appearance in the national spotlight. He appeared to dislike it. Only last year his boyhood friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, plucked him from a prosperous but relatively obscure private & corporation practice in small Jamestown, N. Y. to be general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed questioning and repartee...
Traction. From 1904 to 1913 Washington's Capital Traction Co. (street railways) lost each & every personal injury suit in which the claimant was represented by Frank J. Hogan. In 1913 Capital Traction Co. hired Frank J. Hogan as its general counsel, has kept him ever since. Two years later the whole nation heard about him. Accused by the Government of trading in securities in violation of the National Banking Act was Washington's famed old Riggs National Bank, where every President from Buchanan to Wilson kept his personal funds. To secure an injunction against government interference the bank...
...Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, putting them on the stand as character witnesses. Then he created a minor sensation by himself taking the witness stand. The grand jury refused to indict and the injunction against the Government was made permanent. From that day to this Frank Hogan has been general counsel for Riggs National Bank...