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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 7ยข 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.
