Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flurry passed. Came comment on the Dawes report, plaudits for the League. Then David Hunter Miller, New York lawyer, started another tempest. Mr. Miller's admission ticket to the Institute was compounded of service with the American Peace Commission and experience as counsel for the German Government on the Upper Silesian question before the League...
Then, in 1907, he became chief counsel for the defense in the trial of the labor leaders, "Big Bill" Haywood (now a fugitive in Russia), Moyer and Pettibone, indicted for the murder of ex-Governor Stuenenburg, of Idaho. He was brilliantly successful in this trial, and when, in April, 1911, the McNamara brothers were arrested for dynamiting the building of the Los Angeles Times and union labor the country over rallied to their support and raised a huge fund for their defense, it surprised nobody that Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, was retained as chief counsel...
...anyone to serve the Government who was not in its pay (TIME, Apr. 21). With the adjournment of Congress in June, the Committee also adjourned. Senator Couzens, its moving spirit, was ill at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. But the Senate gave the Committee power to employ such counsel and assistance as it deemed necessary during the recess...
...public was surprised, gratified last week when the readers of the Chicago Daily Tribune declined that paper's offer to broadcast the Loeb-Leopold murder-trial proceedings. The public was further surprised, further gratified when the Tribune editors took counsel over this rebuff, recovered their poise, came out with an open confession of the journalistic soul and a sincere proposal for reform that would have done credit to the most reputable paper in the land...
Wayne B. Wheeler, General Counsel and Legislative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "If we confess that we cannot enforce our laws we cease to be a Nation. . . . Human progress will be turned back and the current now steadily setting toward a Golden Age will lose its force in a backwater...