Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club, would certainly be stimulated to wonder whether facts had any importance in the scheme of life. He would be, as I am, at a loss to unscramble the report. Certainly its writer had a feeling that something "smelled rotten", but his olfactory nerves turned towards procedure, government counsel, in fact, towards anything save what commonly smells rotten Oil. To refute its many statements would not be worth time or space. But the product raises any important issue: it calls attention to the seriousness of a want of technical equipment in collegiate and other types of journalism...
...David Franklin Houston, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of Agriculture; thereafter (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury, starring War President Wilson. Evidence appears that Secretary Houston stood high in the intimacy of the chief actor whom he served; was heard with respect above other voices at rehearsals; was telephoned for counsel in the night watches, after at least one performance...
...fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal, had found a way to change the markings on the pads of his fingers. Honest Feit smiled, wrinkling the skin around his wart. He walked away a free...
Regarding the moral problems of a surgeon he said: "We immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a gesture, he may stand as an arbiter be tween the life or death of one of his fellows. . . . Lives of infants, who are on the threshold of life and in whom are centred the hopes and happiness of their parents, of women, young women, especially, who appeal most touchingly...
...there is any virtue in the legal institutions of this Commonwealth, citizens of Massachusetts cannot but admit that these accused men have very thoroughly had their day in court. Their day, for that matter, is not yet over, for their counsel are at liberty to appeal once more to the Supreme Judicial Court for a reversal of the present decision. Absolutely no one can urge that there has been any suppression of evidence, or any turning of deaf ears to the pleas of the defense...