Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal to the nation's clergymen, asking their "counsel and advice," inviting them to "tell me where you feel our Government can better serve our people" (TIME...
...called upon to disclose my plans for the defense," snapped Counsel Wilkinson...
...Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated point of constitutional law, to the State Pardon Board for clemency, to State courts for another trial on grounds of new evidence...
Twenty-two years of shrewd, faithful political counsel to Franklin Roosevelt put Louis McHenry Howe into the White House in March 1933 as No. 1 Presidential Secretary. Two years later a combination of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma put the President's best-loved, most-trusted adviser, supposedly dying, under an oxygen tent in his White House bedroom...
Died. Brigadier General Jacob F. ("Jake") Wolters. 64, general counsel and chief lobbyist of Texas Co., onetime commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade (Texas National Guard), longtime administrator of martial law in Texas; of a heart ailment; in Austin. Because of a political feud with Governor James V. Allred ("The first thing I'll do is bust 'General Jake' to a buck private in the rear ranks'"). Wolters retired last year just before Allred was inaugurated...