Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway--"Braveheart", with Rod La Rocque, and "Counsel for the Defense", with Betty Compson...
Roused to fury, dapper Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War, now a Cleveland lawyer and chief counsel for the merger proponents, snapped to his feet as soon as proceedings permitted, keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...
...pays the judges, it fixes the salaries of the judges, it fixes the salaries of all the employes of the Court, it fixes the pensions of the judges. But coming more directly to the important feature, the League may call upon this Court at any time for advice or counsel upon any dispute or any question which the Council of the League sees fit to submit to it. It makes it the consulting legal adviser of the League, which the League only controls...
...have therefore directed my counsel to close our part of the proceeding without argument...
...this man a Moses, fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics...