Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counsel Edward B. Hanify further submitted that "the defendant is a charitable corporation under the laws of the Commonwealth and is exempt from any liability arising out of the transactions described in the plaintiff's declaration...
Lustig's counsel, Lloyd Paul Stryker, admitted to the jury that his client had been "delinquent." Nevertheless, he had a defense: Lustig, said he, had voluntarily confessed his delinquency, had paid the Treasury $1,800,000 as a compromise settlement. In return he had been promised immunity from criminal prosecution. But, said Stryker, "high Government officials cheated and deceived Henry Lustig!" What officials? Why, "the boss" was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Treasury Secretary when the Lustig investigation began. Before the trial ends, some weeks hence, Stryker promised to call Morgenthau as a witness...
...desire for haste was not matched by an equal yearning for efficiency. Defense counsel complained that documents and witnesses, available any time during the last six months, were still to be produced at Bad Nauheim. Last week, on this score, they won a 26-day continuance in Ennis' case, asked 30 days for Cubage...
...Virginia, spent most of his early business days in the tropics. There he collected rare orchid plants, also found a wife (the sister of famed airman "Billy" Mitchell) and a job as an attorney for United Fruit. Now he is United Fruit's vice president and general counsel as well as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong Democrat, Jackson classified himself as a "social-minded conservative." He promised to wage a vigorous campaign to revise the Wagner Act, to outlaw "unfair practices" by labor such as mass picketing and price controls by fall, eliminate all federal...
...major corporation smart enough to operate one of the Oak Ridge atom plants and with a large legal department (not to mention outside counsel paid an annual retainer of $30,000), this was a major boner. Only five days before, the U.S. Treasury had announced that the difference between the market and option price of stocks sold to employes will be taxed as income. (Previously there was no tax on exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then...