Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the assault. But Mr. Truman himself was not bending. He was determined to fight his battle out at whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...
Attorneys arguing the great coal case were almost obscured by the shadows cast by John L. Lewis, the U.S. Government, and the momentous issues. But seldom had opposing counsel seemed more aptly cast...
Joseph Arthur Padway, bullnecked, grey-haired, 55-year-old defender of John Lewis, is general counsel for the A.F.L. and the archetype of the U.S. labor lawyer. As confidant, adviser, defender of Jimmy Petrillo, Dan Tobin and many another A.F.L. chieftain, Joe Padway has written both labor history and labor law, could boast of many a thwacking from Columnist Westbrook Pegler. He was born in Leeds, England, came to the U.S. as a youth, was admitted to the Wisconsin...
...were needed, to the coal strike. It was scarcely needed. Legal infantry were carrying out his orders in the court battles, following a strategy planned in advance. All that Harry Truman required was a series of position reports and estimates of the situation. These he got from his counsel, Clark Clifford, who was in & out of his office unnumbered times...
...year-old boys, old men with their hands tied behind their backs, with no time to make peace with their Maker, with no time to say goodbye, led out five at a time to kneel while the life was shot out of them. That," said British King's Counsel C. L. Sterling, "is a picture that might well call for retribution...