Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Red leaders, encouraged by these widespread successes, intimated that a general strike was in the offing, Prakasam sought the counsel of Congress Party Boss Vallabhbhai Patel. Patel's advice was strong action. Prakasam followed it -not, as he said, "for the mere purpose of satisfying our own will or acting the tyrant. . . . It has become an absolute necessity...
Harland B. Newton, Parkhurst's defense counsel, stressed to an attentive court of the rehabilitative possibilities of his client, and managed to slice off six months to a year from the demands of District Attorney George Thompson, who sought a penalty of three to five years...
Milton A. Smith, assistant General Counsel of the Chamber, said portal suits "pose a threat of bankruptcy to concerns which are the backbone of the American economic system...
...sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines, trucks, tools and necessary materials. Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers L. F. Harza and Theodore Knappen, who once worked for Standard Oil, and New Deal Economists Lauchlin Currie and Robert Nathan. The first fruits of the mission's counsel were announced last week: the purchase by the Argentine state railways of 90 diesel-electric locomotives for $20 million. Said Peron of the new technical collaboration: "This is a great historical event." It was the first time that such a gigantic project had been entrusted by Argentina...
...suits for back pay rose to billions, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel, Lee Pressman, admitted that the whole business had got out of hand.* Cried he: "They are fantastic. Local lawyers have gone hog-wild. Suits for those incredible sums have fanned the flames of anti-unionism...