Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were making an onslaught on Secretary Mellon. There was a report of the Judiciary Committee before the House condemning the Attorney General for lax investigation of the company. There was also a resolution proposed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, to authorize the President to appoint special counsel to present evidence before a grand jury with a view to obtaining indictments against the company...
...agree to the report 33 ayes. Thirty-four Republicans and two Democrats (Blease and Bruce) voted to reject the report 36 noes. The report was beaten, the Senate would not investigate the Aluminum Co. and Mr. Mellon. Since there was little hope left for his resolution to have special counsel present the case to a grand jury, Senator Robinson dropped his resolution. The result was considered in some quarters as a victory for Secretary Mellon, his popularity and reputation for rectitude; in other quarters it was taken to mean that the Senate did not want to face the facts...
After four years, he returned to Illinois and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...
...Manhattan and took the first steps towards a national conference of Jewish religious organizations, resolved that: "We representatives, . . . recognizing the fundamental spiritual unity which binds us as Jews, believing that the synagogue is the basic and essential unit in our Jewish life, and believing in the desirability of taking counsel together for the sacred purpose of preserving and fostering Judaism in America, recommend to the organizations represented at this meeting that a conference composed of national congregational and rabbinical organizations of America be formed for the purpose of enabling them to speak and act unitedly in furthering such religious interests...
Lately, Public Relations Counsellor Edward L. Bernays* of Manhattan made a definition which Editor and Publisher hastened to reprint with the grateful title, "Now We Know." Mr. Bernays declared: "The public relations counsel carries forward to a logical development, along broader and more constructive lines, the work of the 'publicity...