Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walker postdated his ban to Feb. 28, and counsel for Esquire hastily laid plans for suit this week to overturn "a far-reaching, arbitrary, capricious decision by which one man sets himself up to decide what is in the public welfare." Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich broadly hinted of group pressure on Catholic Mr. Walker. Said he: "[The Postmaster General] possibly had a commitment to carry out somebody else's wishes." From Catholic Bishop John Francis Noll (of Fort Wayne, Ind.), as chairman of the National Organization for Decent Literature, came a statement: "Esquire not even on our disapproved list...
There have been few such storms in Sir Lyman's long, calm life. He seemed born for the bench. His first break came with his appointment as Junior Counsel for Canada in the international arbitration of the 36-year-old dispute on the Alaska-B.C. boundary. After the hearings he was called to the British Columbia Supreme Court, two years later was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada. Then 41, he was the youngest man ever to be appointed...
Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
...rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff Cooper's place as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Duff Cooper became envoy to the French in tempestuous Algiers...
Devoted to the man whose assistant he still believes himself to be, Lamar used to counsel Harlow against working too hard. He never dreamed then of assuming the job of head mentor, or that he himself would plan this year to take a weekend off after the season is over and then start worrying about next year's team...