Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing is so easy in this life as to spatter mud or cavil. There has been a good deal of loose talk on the subject of the Board of Overseers and one constantly has to listen, often with weariness, to counsel of perfection when the annual printed list of suggestions appears, But let me ask again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead...
...Government counsel, Messrs. Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pemeren, were plainly at a disadvantage for lack of conclusive evidence; and, if the evidence of the alleged transfer of bonds were ruled out, their case was even weaker. When Judge T. Blake Kennedy finally takes the case, he will probably take two months or so to make a decision-and that decision will probably be appealed...
...were empowered to transact all the business usually transacted by the King, except the granting of titles or the dissolving of Parliament. And, "all and singular, archbishops, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, bishops, barons, baronets, knights, citizens, burgesses and all our officers, ministers and subjects," were enjoined to "help and counsel" these four...
...Dennistoun, however, brought suit to recover ?952, which she declared she had at various times lent Colonel Dennistoun. She charged that, in 1923, Dennistoun was living in a luxurious flat in Sackville Street and could afford to pay her. Counsel for defense denied that Colonel Dennistoun had any money from which plaintiff could collect, called the case attempted blackmail of Lady Carnarvon, said that defense had been entered because Mrs. Dennistoun would have continued to demand money if her claim had been paid...
Evidences of public disapproval of the so-called "third degree" multiply. In Vermont, Governor Billings has just signed a bill which provides that the "third degree" shall not be "administered" to a person suspected of having committed a crime until he has had an opportunity to consult counsel. It is further provided that a copy of this statute shall be placed in each cell of all penal institutions so that prisoners may be aware of their rights...