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Your article, and the appellation "Chaser Michel," conveys the idea that Mr. Michel's work has been only that of a solicitor of cases. This is not correct and it does a gross injustice to a man whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial work. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Michel has never personally solicited a case in his life. While he may be responsible for the conduct of anyone in behalf of his firm, nevertheless to convey the impression that he is a mere solicitor instead...
...given on Monday, February 9, by H. B. Frendley, who will speak on "The Work of a Young Lawyer". Following this, lectures are to be given on dates in March and April, as yet undecided, by J. G. Buchanan, of Pittsburgh, and by Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., former Solicitor General of the United States...
...Williamson. After the usual fussing, the Senate confirmed all five a day or two before it adjourned for the Christmas holiday. Organizing immediately as a quorum, Commissioners Smith, Draper and Garsaud promptly dismissed several old employes of the Commission. Two of them were Chief Accountant William V. King and Solicitor Charles A. Russell. Because Messrs. King & Russell had cut quite a large public figure bucking private power companies when haled before the old Commission, this pair had come to be known as enemies of the "power trust" and defenders of the "public interest." Democratic and Insurgent Republican Senators immediately raised...
Senator Walsh along with other "anti-Power Trust" members of the Senate considered them among the chief defenders of public power rights against sharp private power companies. The men dismissed were Solicitor Charles...
Between Messrs. Russell & King and Secretary Bonner had long raged a war of power policy. Solicitor Russell was intent upon squeezing what he claimed was "water" from the capitalization of private power companies. No less zealous was Accountant King in making them toe the financial mark. The complaints of these two against Secretary Bonner and their disclosures of the old Commission's methods before the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission were largely responsible for subsequent legislation to reorganize the Federal Power Commission on a full-time non-Cabinet basis (TIME, March 10). The discharge of Messrs. Russell and King, stirred...