Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed Joseph O'Connell Jr., former general counsel for the Treasury, to the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Britain's courts the awful majesty of the law is made visible by the spaniel-eared, full-bottomed wigs of the robed judges, and by the pigtailed wigs and billowing gowns of learned counsel. Last week, in a committee debate on Parliament's new Criminal Justice bill, Laborite Emrys Hughes launched a movement to unwig and unfrock Britain's men of law. "These medieval practices,"* he charged, "are out of keeping with modern courts." "The whole method," chimed in Communist Willie Gallacher, "is designed to create a feeling of fear and terror...
...President rested last week out on the end of a long limb of land-at Key West, Fla. Resting there with him was his counsel and legal adviser, Clark Clifford. While Clifford beamed on his smiling boss, Mr. Truman turned a tanned and apparently carefree face toward the photographers; Clifford himself glistened with confidence and sunburn oil. Looking at the two of them, no one would suspect the gravity of the problems which arrived daily in the pouch from, Washington. No one would suspect, in fact, that the country appeared to be getting ready to dump the whole Truman Administration...
Some 1,500 of the Wallace faithful showed up for the reception, including old New Dealer Rex Tugwell and Communist-liner Lee Pressman, lately bounced as counsel to the C.I.O. At a press conference, Glen Taylor announced that his domestic program called for nationalization of the steel industry, coal mines and railroads...
...this so largely so, and what has Harvard done about it? The College's reaction in 1940 was based on the faulty premise that it was the duller and more backward students who needed help. For that purpose it set up the Bureau of Study Counsel, while in fact the students who went to tutors, and all others who cram both then and now, are perfectly well supplied with grey matter. The trouble lies in the fact that they have in no way been intellectually stimulated by what Harvard has to offer in the classroom, and, since most of them...