Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt took counsel with his economic-war aides in the White House last week: Vice President Henry Wallace, head of the Board of Economic Warfare; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Leon Henderson; Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Budget Director Harold D. Smith. They went in softly by a side door, came softly out the same way. From that session, the President went straight to a conference with his Combined Labor War Board. The significance was obvious. Labor has been a chief bar to an over-all anti-inflation program. Labor, for the first time since 1933, must...
...they weekended with Winston Churchill in the country, where the cherry blossoms were coming out and spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General Sir Alan Francis...
...eighth annual Conference on Conservation of Marriage & the Family did the best it could. But it just didn't seem to have the answers. Not since the college marriage course was started at the University of North Carolina in 1927 had collegiate marriage counselors had as little counsel to offer as in Chapel Hill, N.C. last week...
...Disallowing exorbitant salaries, bonuses and similar expenses," said dry, wry Committee Counsel Edmund Toland, "these profits would be about 100%." He noted that the firm had invested $900,000 in defense bonds, observed: "They are buying Government bonds with Government money...
...arrival of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Marshall, et al. to serve as defense counsel returns the case to a legal level. Their ghostly talents permit them to gather evidence unobserved. The case is a pushover. Of no help whatsoever is another shady defender named Henry Bartholomew Smith (James Conlon), volunteer private in Washington's Continental Army, who, having helped free his country, is through taking orders from generals whose commissions have expired. While the great men squabble over oldtime politics, he observes dryly to Bookkeeper Holden: "Now do you see why it took us seven years to win the Revolution...