Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afford the rich man's hobby of collecting rare books and manuscripts. He can also afford to leave his practice now and then for spells of public service as an operator in international dark corners-a specialty that traces back to his wartime service as legal counsel to "Wild Bill" Donovan (no kin), head of the cloakand-dagger Office of Strategic Services. After the war, Donovan served on the U.S. legal staff at the war-criminal trials in Nurnberg, later helped draft the legislation setting up the Central Intelligence Agency...
...crucifixion by Antichrist conspirators of the Supreme Court." On the night of the battle, he was observed by newsmen and a campus minister to be holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look in his eyes." Late that morning, soldiers at a roadblock arrested Walker as he was attempting to leave town in a car. He was arraigned on charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy and sent...
...slightly surprised to see "Trigger Mike" Coppola and "Tony Ducks'' Corallo on the list. And when she saw the name Hoffa, she "knew something was wrong." Indeed there was. Ethel had picked the wrong shoebox-the one with the cards compiled by Husband Bobby while he was counsel for the Senate's McClellan committee, investigating labor racketeering...
...private business and long federal service, notably as top aide to Truman's Treasury Secretary John Snyder, he has firsthand knowledge of how ineffectual Government policy can be. For five years before returning to Washington as Comptroller, Saxon worked the banker's side of the street as counsel to Chicago's First National Bank...
Thus, no scientific conclusions may be drawn from the Westford Project. But one can conclude that when a military project is in question, the government's scientific counsel is dominantly that of groups associated with the military. This follows from the fact that although the Westford Project was not vital to the national defense (as one might argue the nuclear test was), still the petition of the professional astronomers of the world was ignored...