Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told, by the U. S. Supreme Court, "that they [lawyers] did not know what they had been talking about" in questioning TVA's constitutionality...
...Dewey's first attempt at pinning Jimmy Hines had ended in a mistrial and given the defense a complete preview of his case, although his star witness. Numbers Racketeer George Weinberg, had committed suicide before he could be brought back to the stand, Tammanyman Hines and his counsel had seemed unable to press their advantage. Nevertheless, even confident Tom Dewey was pleasantly surprised when the jury returned less than seven hours after it went out. His smile broke into a relieved grin as to each of the 13 counts in the Hines indictments the jury's foreman...
...Bridgman's Manifesto derives logically from the values of a democratic society. But there is a limit to the consistency of courses of action; self defense is part of a deeper logic for all men and all societies. At the present juncture of world circumstance, you have uttered a counsel in the logic of self-destruction...
...Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...
...helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge, was to advise suckers to switch their investments to two virtually defunct gold mines Promoter Bob owned. In Coronado Gold Mines, Inc. suckers lost $250,000; in Kelly Gold & Silver Mines...