Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg, enterprising reporters had interviewed Hermann Göring and other Nazi defendants by relaying questions through defense attorneys. The war crimes tribunal last week told counsel to cut it out; the Russians had complained...
...with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel moderation: "Rather, build a chapel next to the church, and put your wife in it; whoever goes to Mass is to spit in her face...
...Pearl Harbor Committee's mild, punctilious Counsel William DeWitt Mitchell, who served ably and loyally under Republican Presidents Hoover and Coolidge, could no longer hide his impatience. In quiet anger, he announced that he and his assistants would quit their thankless jobs at year...
Said William Mitchell: "It has become increasingly apparent that some members of the committee have a different view than that entertained by counsel, either as to the scope of the inquiry or as to what is pertinent evidence. . . . There remain at least 60 witnesses to be examined. . . . At the rate of progress during the past month, it seems certain that several more months of hearings will be required...
Iron Faces, Clerkly Gifts. Sitting in London's crowded Central Criminal Court, she noted "the men with iron faces who belong to the special police," the defense counsel "who pecks at his cases like a sparrow, as tireless and as careful of the smallest grain," and the intelligence officers "who are usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into...