Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Kohn, Gierens and Krein went to trial (Back had not been found). Their counsel was a German lawyer designated by the commission.* He pleaded that Kohn's nerves had been shattered in the war and that he had fallen for Goebbels' propaganda. Gierens, said the lawyer, was insane; Krein had merely followed Back's orders...
...seas of the Far East during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. He read "Mahan's classic on sea power. During World War I he commanded a troopship carrying U.S. soldiers to France. He also met and gave some occasional friendly counsel to the young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the years between wars he studied naval ordnance, served as chief of two bureaus (Ordnance and Navigation) and finally, in 1937, by appointment of his old friend Roosevelt, became the Navy's top dog-Chief of Naval Operations. The Chippewa Indians made...
...Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, recently appointed chief U.S. counsel, was on record with another, fundamental suggestion. Said he: do not burden established courts with prejudged cases. Let political and military judgments be handed down only by political and military agencies...
...Although a formula for trying war criminals had yet to be announced, the U.S. named its chief counsel for the international tribunal that would handle the cases: Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who opposes judicial proceedings to execute military or political policy, favors trial and punishment by military agencies set up for the express purpose...
...Politicians. Politically, the President will have the constant counsel of his longtime colleague in the Democratic organization-National Chairman Hannegan. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last year, it was Hannegan who lined up the big-city machines to snatch the Vice Presidential nomination away from Henry Wallace and his chief sponsor, P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman...