Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higher courts upheld Justice McGeehan's decision not on its merits but on technicalities. One obstacle: New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia blocked the Board of Higher Education by refusing to let the city's counsel appeal the case...
...York's Queens County Court, Judge Charles Golden recessed proceedings to halt a distracting grating noise coming from under the counsel table. The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness...
...reddened, shouted: "You promised me ... a chance to answer." Snapped Miller: "I did not." Then Fly rushed out to the street, paced up & down the block, cracking his knuckles in anger. To reporters, whom he has distrusted ever since he was TVA's general counsel, he roared: "Leave me alone!" Next day he issued a sharp statement in reply. He said the N.A.B. management was like a remark by John Randolph of Virginia: "It reminds me of a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it both shines and stinks...
...needs and some to spare, Alcoa was already delaying deliveries on some of its civilian orders. Mr. Gibbons said that the Stettinius office so far as he knew had not consulted Alcoa before issuing the statement, and that Alcoa did not feel called upon to correct the estimate. > Committee Counsel Hugh Fulton declared that Alcoa had "refused" to make the deliveries (particularly to Mr. Reynolds' company, which had previously processed Alcoa aluminum and was then looming as a competitor). Said Mr. Gibbons, denying the charges: "You use such hard words, Mr. Fulton, you make me flinch...
Eastman Kodak Co. broke its tradition of technically trained presidents last week, switched instead to a lawyer: young (49), handsome, Nebraska-born Thomas Jean Hargrave. As vice president and general counsel, Lawyer Hargrave has been known as a shrewd, steady, retiring executive who got along equally well with obscure employes and socialite friends. Rochester guessed two reasons for his promotion: 1) Eastman's new policy of pushing younger men to the top; 2) a decision by Eastman directors that - in times when war and Government were big factors in corporate affairs - a lawyer would do better than a technical...