Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blackout. As for President Johnson, he was keeping his own counsel about his plans for Viet Nam. He devoted many hours to the subject last week. He met with the National Security Council. He had a long session with visiting French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who tried to sell Charles de Gaulle's plan for an immediate international conference aimed at neutralizing all of what used to be French Indo-China...
...called to the Law School. Although Frankfurter came to Cambridge, he continued to be deeply involved in national affairs. During the first World War, Wilson brought him back to Washington, first as Counsel of the President's Mediation Commission and then as Chairman of the War Labor Policies Board. In the thirties, Frankfurter was a close adviser of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and when Roosevelt became President, Frankfurter supplied him with bright young Harvard Law men to help staff the alphabet soup of New Deal agencies...
...protective towers of Yale to volunteer; after the war and his graduation from college he served for two years in Berlin with the American Friends Service Committee before entering Law School. He left a comfortable Wall Street law practice to join the Peace Corps--first as General Counsel, then as Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, and now as Secretary General of the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service. Recalling his work as a national director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Delano speaks in broad terms of his "commitment to public service," his "duty" to society, the mission of educated Americans...
...presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over the "unfairness and injustice of this retrial'' and decided that "I must...
...criminal record, snapped the judge. "Mr. Armstead," the prosecutor dutifully began. But Judge Holtzoff, who is 78 and has been on the bench 20 years, interrupted in a manner unexpected in the scrupulously courteous federal courts. "Don't address defendants as Mister," he said. "Witnesses and counsel should be addressed as Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, but not the defendant...