Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
...wildest dreams. When they heckled him, he said "I don't blame you. In 1933, if you had told me that I would be paying bonuses of 100% of the salaries and still reducing the costs, I wouldn't have believed you either." To committee counsel Edmund Toland's contention that these bonuses (plus a $1,000,000 trust fund established to retire extra wartime workers) had milked the Government out of over $4,000,000 in taxes from 1939-41, he retorted with a fancy statistic. Had his incentive pay not developed new manufacturing short cuts...
...Fallen Great. Few men nowadays challenge the assertion that for leadership the people now listen to the Government's executives, take counsel from the nation's press (whether or not they agree with it), get their debates and oratory from radio forums-but they watch Congress mainly for laughs...
...battlefronts of this war. Their only uncertainty is when & where. They even know how it will be used. The airplane is a ready means of spreading gas quickly over the greatest area. And all the belligerents are ready, Axis and United Nations alike. The U.S. Army kept its counsel last week, but the citizenry could be sure that elaborate preparations have been made for chemical warfare...
Acting as his own counsel, James outlined his case: "I am prepared to prove that this is a violation of my constitutional right of free speech. The pamphlet was put out in good faith, relying on my constitutional right of free speech...