Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's hearing, Rayinski's counsel pointed out that the 1839 law under which the musician had been convicted provided that householders could call the cops and complain if street music became obnoxious; in Rayinski's case no such complaint had been registered. The court reversed the conviction...
...like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...
...prevents him from acting against the Crown without special royal permission. The first American to receive the title: British-born Judah P. Benjamin, onetime Secretary of State of the Confederacy, who fled to England in 1865, reclaimed his birthright as a British subject, and was made Queen's Counsel...
Republicans in Diapers. "I've been subjected to the damndest bunch of intellectual balderdash that I've seen come out of politics in a hell of a long time. I've been represented as being responsible for the 'Pearl Harbor whitewash' [he was counsel for the Pearl Harbor Committee], although I battled the committee for a whole month. I've been accused of being responsible for everything the Loyalty Review Board did, although I sat in just two cases . . . I've been charged by Republicans . . . with being only a nominal Republican, and these...
...Boss Symington wasted no time last week in getting to the bottom of Tobey's charges. He ordered a special investigation by former Federal Trade Commission Counsel Joseph J. Smith Jr., gave him full rein to dig into the mess. The Senate Banking & Currency Committee also went into action. It sent the Tobey report to the Justice Department to see if there was any ground for legal action against B. & O. and former RFC officials...