Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsel of President Washington, said General Marshall, still held good: "If we desire to secure peace . . . it must be known that we are at all times ready...
Soon he became special assistant to Attorney General Jackson, and then to Francis Biddle. Then he was an assistant general counsel in 0PM (later WPB), and finally assistant to Jimmy Byrnes and Fred Vinson in OES. By that time (1942), "Prich" had roly-polyed his way around Washington until he had a chubby finger in everybody...
...South Dorset, was invited to open National Savings Week in seaside Swanage. The Viscount did not say what he was supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
Without much hope of success, defense counsel said they would appeal to a higher court, and, if necessary, to the House of Lords. William Joyce was whisked away to await the noose at the famous Hammersmith prison, Wormwood Scrubs...
...back in 1941. At that time a Senatorial investigation had put Hollywood on the worst spot in its history, yet Hays came up with no aggressive ideas to beat off the attack. The industry, realizing that the chips were down, hired the late, great Wendell Lewis Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major studio to pull out of the Hays...