Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing to suggest that there could be no better man placed on the ticket as a candidate than Owen J. Roberts, who is at present of Government counsel in the oil cases, and who has been responsible for the Government securing the return of approximately $18,000,000, through his efforts on its behalf...
...help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
...RESOLVED that the Presbytery appoint a committee of counsel to consist of two ministers and one ruling elder who is also a lawyer (said committee to be chosen so as to be easily accessible) and that Presbytery urge all its ministers when they are asked to remarry any divorced person concerning whose right to remarriage there appears to be the slightest question to bring all the papers and all relative information to this committee and to be guided by their judgment in acceding or refusing to perform the desired marriage...
...Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...
Mayor Duvall's defense counsel, who mean to appeal his conviction through the Indiana Supreme Court, said: "John Duvall isn't the first Indianapolis man made to stand and defend himself solely because he was unfortunate enough to run and be elected to office." The charges against unfortunate John Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised...