Word: counseling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...busy day. Never a man to lie late abed, the new President was up at 6:30, breakfasted in his apartment with his old friend Hugh Fulton, the ex-Wall Street lawyer who had been counsel, investigator and workhorse for the Truman (now Mead) investigating committee (see below). At 9, President Truman was ready to go to the White House...
...Chief Executive took up his heavy task, he turned to another counselor, a trusted adviser on domestic affairs -big (6 ft., 230 Ibs.) Hugh Alfred Fulton, who had been counsel for the Truman (war investigating) Committee. In Washington there was little doubt that round-faced, high-voiced Hugh Fulton might wind up in the Cabinet, possibly as Attorney General...
...peculiarly personal vagaries of White House politics. Last year, Byrnes had been summarily taken out of the race for the Vice-Presidency. There was a time after that when he might have been Secretary of State. Finally he failed to get his friend, Ben Cohen, a job as counsel in the State Department...
...Judge took with him, as his general counsel and No. 1 adviser, young (30), rolypoly Edward F. Prichard, who had been his right-hand man in the Office of Economic Stabilization and also in the loan agencies. In substituting Vinson & Prichard for Byrnes and his military deputy, Major General Lucius Clay, Franklin Roosevelt was getting no team of yes-men, even where the War Department was concerned. It was a team that might work more happily with civilian officials, who had resented the military-first policies of smooth, determined General Clay (who had gone off to be top U.S. civil...
Leon Henderson probably would recommend more U.S. aid (civilian supplies. gold bullion) to bolster China's economy. Even if his counsel brought China scant immediate relief, it was another sign that hope had replaced despair...