Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haltingly Swales told this near-murder story last week at the West Hartlepool police court. Harold Clarke, his blonde wife and his brunette mistress were all on hand to hear it and the defense by Harold Clarke's counsel, who called the story "fabrication...
...death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
...young officers became national heroes. The defense counsel presented 111,000 letters appealing for clemency. "Nine young men of Niigata chopped off nine little fingers in evidence of sincerity and sent them to the War Minister pickled in a jar of alcohol." With the fingers came an appeal for the murderers: "They broke the law but their motives were pure." Schoolboys wrote letters in blood. A German sausage maker contributed ten yen ($3) toward a fund for a monument which would show Inukai shaking hands with his assassins...
...University of Wisconsin Law School there remain only five of its 13 full-time professors, only 92 of its 400 students; Dean Lloyd Garrison is absent as counsel to the War Labor Board...
...Senators then let him go and went to listen to other sales-tax proposals. One for a sales tax on merchants' gross sales of goods (not services) was offered by the committee's counsel, Colin F. Stam. The other, a proposal for a 10% stamp tax on sales-the Government to pay back the stamp buyers after the war or accept the stamps as income-tax payments-came from Connecticut's John A. Danaher...