Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...Colorado coal field, she got ready to fight it. Within a few months she bought the interest of Denver Capitalist Horace Bennett and gained control of $10,000,000 R. M. F. Then to Josephine Roche's office was summoned Rocky Mountain Fuel's general counsel, the late progressive U. S. Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan. To Senator Costigan went leaders of Colorado's struggling mine unions. Late in the summer of 1928 they signed a famed document: the first mine union contract in Colorado's history. Its far-seeing purpose: "To establish industrial justice, substitute reason...
...morning of June 1, 1938, black-robed Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down from his huge bench in Manhattan's gleaming new U. S. courthouse upon a bank of lawyers. Standing at the flat, mahogany counsel table with a sheaf of notes, earnest, tousle-headed Walter Lyman Rice, trust-busting Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, was ready to give his opening outline of a lawsuit to dissolve $253,000,000 Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly in restraint of trade...
...paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became clients-i. e., had their policies cashed or converted and cheaper insurance substituted, sometimes with a spot of recovered cash to boot. For these services, Siegel exacts an average fee of $25. Non-profit consumer groups also engaged in insurance counsel say the average case can be handled for $3. Out of his whopping annual take, some $250,000, Siegel paid a radio bill last year of $100,000 for time on ten local and four New England stations...
...Chicago & North Western Railway Co. made its counsel, methodical Fred Wesley Sargent, its president and operating head. Last week, 63 and ailing, lawyer-railroader-gentleman Farmer Sargent resigned, having in 14 years seen the North Western win seven national rewards for safe operation...