Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman called in Charlie Ross and 39-year-old Clark Clifford, his special counsel. He talked & talked-about Wallace. Although he had told the world that the matter was settled, it really was not -as the correspondents abroad and the newspapers at home kept telling him. He went to his bedroom, still pondering. "It was," said one awed intimate, "like Jesus walking in the garden." The next morning he had made up his mind...
...State Department's request, the film had so far been sent only to Paris and Moscow. From Tito's Yugoslavia, the Paris showing brought charges of "atomic diplomacy." Cried Belgrade's Politika: a modern version of Theodore Roosevelt's well-remembered counsel, which might be paraphrased as "Speak softly but keep an atom bomb in your hand...
...lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy. He never went to sea, but he wound up two years later as naval aide to the President and a four-stripe captain, a feat which ordinarily takes Annapolis graduates around 20 years. Six weeks ago he became the President's special counsel, the job vacated by shrewd, veteran judge & lawyer Sam Rosenman. Everyone agrees that Clark Clifford, who is "perfectly devoted" to Harry Truman, has a way with Harry Truman as he has with juries...
...Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship and the hope of a common faith...
...third occasion she had overheard one of her bosses talking about "the $1,000 for Yankel." That, she explained, was their nickname for Andrew Jackson May. (Added a committee counsel: "Yiddish for Little Jack. . . . It means he is not too smart.") Said Eleanor Hall succinctly: "a bunch of crooks." Pretty, red-haired Jean Bates, a coworker, agreed...