Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Army, keeping all names secret, told the tragic story and its aftermath. A general court-martial of seven colonels had tried the officer on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. He had chosen not to testify for himself. His counsel had argued that he acted irrationally under great emotional strain, that medical testimony left a reasonable doubt whether the sergeant died from bullets or from burning...
...King's liking for motorcars is one of his bonds with his remarkable British mentor, Harry St. John B. Philby, an unsung "Lawrence of Arabia" who joined Ibn Saud during World War I, turned Moslem afterward, got the Arabian agency for Fords, and has supplied the King with counsel and motorcars ever since. St. John (rhymes with Injun) Philby, quietly unobtrusive amid the splendors of the palace and court at Riyadh, has had much to do with Ibn Saud's rise in the Arab world...
...seems he has a good poker hand very much in demand next term. Bill Patrick, the man with the embarrassing memory, wishes to make a public statement to the effect that slips will occur and he'll be glad to offer his services as defense counsel at any board meeting...
General Electric planned and carried out its foreign agreements under the guidance of eminent legal counsel. .. . Among them: the late, great Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson Cabinet, and one of the great exponents of classical liberalism. Newton Baker had made a study of G.E.'s foreign contracts in 1922 (when, Francis Biddle now charges, it was violating the law). Baker's conclusion: without the contracts or some other arrangement, U.S. electrical knowledge would be denied necessary access to the advanced and valuable developments abroad...
...that they got there. He was living in the Lincoln Room at the White House, and had the President's ear night & day. When Franklin Roosevelt tried to have the Neutrality Act repealed, Harry Hopkins lay down on his couch one day after lunch, called in legal counsel, and dictated a message to Congress in 90 minutes. It was delivered, over the President's signature, with hardly a comma changed...