JUDICIARY: Lawyer's Lawyer

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counsel for the Delaware & Hudson R. R. in its effort to retain a lease on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. He had been engaged to help defend minority Ford stockholders, other than Senator James Couzens, in the government's futile attempt to levy extra taxes on them. He had argued and lost the Interborough's 7¢ fare case in the Supreme Court. He was special attorney for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in his successful ouster of Col. Robert Wright Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent.