Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted Count Haugwitz-Reventlow as saying ; as to the murder victim, he was to be a "gentleman of London," (left unnamed by agreement of opposing counsel) who would first be challenged to a duel, than shot down "like...
Treasury Department-Chief General Counsel Herman Oliphant. (Alternate: Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples, Director of the Procurement Division...
President Roosevelt, after taking counsel with his Cabinet, last week picked the six members from his executive branches who will sit with six from Congress on the potent temporary National Economic Committee, better known as the Monopoly Investigation (TIME, June 20). Because the President originally asked for an all-executive committee, because Congress kept control of only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President...
Franklin Roosevelt's first job was as clerk in the Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney...
...power development, thus reducing TVA's yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away to look into this and many another TVA question, the President sent to Congress a long-awaited report from TVA's financial committee on cost allocation. At last they show just where the notches on the Authority's yardstick had been...