Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the instigation of the company, Dentist Lautenbach had signed the papers necessary to permit Mr. Davis to participate in the trustees' action. He served without fee. But since he is also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility...
To the young New Deal lawyers, present last week only as "friends of the court," this legal background appeared distinctly "suspicious." SECounsel Burns questioned the court's jurisdiction, accused the interested lawyers of "collusion" and "professional impropriety." Those are serious charges in any court and, coming from a man...
Growing madder by the minute, Lawyer Davis shouted: "I say it is an unworthy, an undignified and a contemptible presentation.
"And when I realize it comes from the official representatives of the Government of the United States, I say that if that represents their conception of official duty and their temper toward citizens, then on bended knee I pray, 'God save the SEC and the people of these United...
Next day Lawyer Davis ripped into the Utility Act as the "most unexcused and unexcusable grasp of power" he had ever seen, "even in these fertile days." Much of his attack was against the broad interpretation of the Federal Government's postal and interstate commerce powers. When chunky, snub...