Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees - some 70,000 zombies idling at home - to battle overseas? The man on whom the final answer rested listened to his Ministers, kept his own counsel. A winter stalemate on the Western Front might enable Prime Minister King to defer his decision. But the Prime Minister knew, and Canadians knew, that if the war went into another year, the issue would have to be met. They knew also that the zombies had become a source...
...Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...
...Boston Charles B. Rugg, counsel for Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, issued a statement saying that Forrestal's "suggested procedure is a spacious pretext to keep the truth of Pearl Harbor hidden from Dec. 7, 1941 to Nov. 7, 1944. This inconsistent and dilatory procedure is unjust to Admiral Kimmel...
McGoldrick, lawyer son of a onetime New York State Supreme Court Justice, got over drinking with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous four years ago. Last year, when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to appoint him an assistant corporation counsel, he refused, asked to be allowed to work with drunkards instead...
Fortnight ago it had become apparent that the Government's most active member of this team will be the Foreign Economic Administration. Last week Oscar Cox, FEA's general counsel, was still studying a letter drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease...