Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation of "the unusually large purchases of aircraft [by the Air Force] from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Floyd Odium, a contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company of which Louis Johnson was, until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel...
...colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
Justice Jackson had a bigger and broader objection. In his angry dissent, the man who was chief U.S. counsel at the Nürnberg trials brought into focus the dilemma of democracy: how to keep its freedoms without delivering itself to its enemies. To Jackson it was clear that Chicago had a clear right to curb a Terminiello, and that the judge's definition was a practical recipe for a concrete situation...
...Affairs Committee, under the chairmanship of Albert F. Canwell, turned its full attention to "subversive" activities on the U of W campus. Canwell, a photographer before his election, said, "the last hope of freedom rests with us." One month later, Canwell outlined his method of nourishing that last hope. "Counsel (for the defendants) . . . may not make objections, cross examine or make speeches...
Olivet needed money badly. Some teachers were owed several months' worth of back salaries. So a business man and lawyer was brought in as the new President, Aubrey L. Ashby, Olivet '08, a former vice president and general counsel of the National Broadcasting Company...