Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counsel, Thomas Greer, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture in June 1965, when the farm bill was being drafted, and asked that "any farmer who wishes to grow Acala 4-42 without acreage limitation be permitted to do so, provided that prior to the advent of the growing season he waives any right to price supports for that year." Had Mr. Greer's request been heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus...
...York, California and Michigan. With their modest personnel budgets, they cannot readily afford the large staffs necessary to put a politician in the spotlight and keep him there. There are fewer big moneymen in the back yard willing to finance political spadework, fewer political professionals available to give counsel and serve as delegate hunters...
Just Following Orders. The defendants are entitled to automatic review of convictions and can appeal all the way up to the Court of Military Appeals, which is made up of three civilians. They are also provided with free military defense counsel. Generally young, the attorneys "really get in there and chew," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bill Wander, who has just returned from 13 months as the law officer* at every Marine or Navy general court-martial in Viet Nam. "They fight tooth and nail and don't give an inch. They come from all the best law schools...
...Holtzman ruled that the state's department of education had denied Marsha due process of law. Emphasizing the gravity of sanctions imposed on a Regents cheater, Judge Holtzman held that the education department should have held a hearing "at which she might defend herself with the assistance of counsel...
With $1000 of Vietnam Summer money, about 30 of the resistors opened an office at 138 Rivers Street, Cambridge, where they counsel young men in methods of avoiding the draft. They are also thinking of working more closely with the CNC, whose canvassers generally keep records of which Cambridge families have draftage sons. The Draft Resistance Group may send people around in the wake of the CNC to offer their services to these families...