Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern, Boyle probably knows more Democratic...
...last week, he turned up with a lawyer. "The attorney laid a piece of paper before his client. Whenever he was asked an embrrassing question the lawyer tapped the paper and John looked down and read aloud from it: "I refuse to answer that question on advice of counsel, on the ground that my answer might tend to incriminate...
...weeks. But that wasn't the end of it. The Navy promptly suspended Worth, and ordered a court of inquiry to find out just how many other Navymen had helped him to put his statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy officers...
...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
Said Trustee Bridges, who as U.S. Senator gets $12,500 plus a tax-free $2,500 expense allowance: "I am not going to be forced out ... by a lot of scurrilous criticism. And I wouldn't stay 30 seconds if I were not paid sufficiently to hire real counsel and advice...