Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaped man who often says no to Franklin Roosevelt gulped and said yes. Thus Justice Samuel I. ("Sammy the Rose") Rosenman, 47, decided to quit his job as a New York Supreme Court Justice (salary $25,000 a year) to become "special counsel" to the President (probable salary $10,000 a year...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was campaigning for New York's Governorship, he met a learned, self-effacing young lawyer. Sam Rosenman at once became useful to Candidate Roosevelt; he dug up facts for campaign speeches, modestly made many a sound suggestion. Governor Roosevelt made Rosenman his personal counsel, dubbed him "Sammy the Rose." In 1932 The Rose was appointed, then elected to a 14-year term on the New York Supreme Court bench. But for a decade he has remained a trusted Roosevelt adviser, shuttling back & forth-half the week in Washington, where a White House bed was always made...
Infatuated Benito Mussolini often followed Claretta's counsel on foreign policy. During the Spanish Civil War General Francisco Franco petitioned Rome for two more divisions. "What shall I do?" the Duce asked his paramour. "Bimbo," she replied, "do send the divisions. General Franco is so simpatico." When the time came to attack Greece, Claretta approved because the Greek Ambassador had snubbed her at diplomatic receptions...
Texas-tall, balding, FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made the obvious observation: "FCC is being tried in the newspapers." He had pretty good proof that the Committee planned it that way: a July 7 memo from the counsel to Cox Committee members outlining the most effective procedure...
...Special aid and counsel regarding readjustment and rehabilitation...