Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri-born Republican Robert N. Denham was named general counsel of the new National Labor Relations Board by President Truman yesterday. His job is clothed with sweeping powers under the Taft-Hartley labor...
...Almost Always." More important than the confession itself is the contrition of the penitent; an ounce of true repentance is worth a pound of remorse. Cut for the habitual minor sinner. Father Wilson has a counsel of moderation: merely resolve to cut down on the sinning, don't make an impossible vow to cut it out entirely. He cites a realistic five-year-old penitent who resolved: "I will be a little better than before, I will hardly ever get angry ... or be rude ... I will almost always do my English lesson well...
...Debate. Harry Truman had no choice. Others did. Minutes after the Senate overrode the President's veto, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, resigned, declaring that he had "grave doubts concerning both the workability and the fairness of this...
While Congress Watched. Harry Truman's most immediate problem was selection of two new members of the board, provided by the new law: a general counsel (who will assume the old board's duties of investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practices) and a chief for the new, independent Mediation and Conciliation Service. The President promised to pick men who "have the confidence of management and labor." It would be hard to find men on whom Harry Truman and a Republican Senate could agree...
...sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian and the rest of the cast sang in French. During the first act she tried to wake up the rest; her voice spread and her acting became exaggerated. Between acts, she took counsel with herself, decided that she never again would sing in one language with the rest of the cast singing in another ("It's too lonely"), and that "the only thing I could do was to calm down, to get my voice in place and hope for the best." The best...