Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before they graduates and pass their bar examinations, Law students are getting practical count room experience through the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, an organization of high ranking second and third-year men which acts as counsel for those who cannot afford professional lawyers...
...they could count on the Supreme Court to free the accused Trotskyites." This statement is an error and an unfortunate one. What I said was that the Supreme Court could be expected to free the accused Trotskyites if innocent*. I also emphasized the importance of the employment of competent counsel for the defense in order that the record of the trial which would be the basis of an appeal to the Supreme Court might be accurate and complete. Arthur N. Holcombe, Professor of Government...
...Maynard knows how to give good advice if not to take it. His counsel to journalists: "Merely to expose Protestant bigotry is an endless process, the cutting off of the Hydra's heads, and accomplishes nothing. It is about time that we learned that the most effectual way of making other people Catholics is by ourselves becoming Christians...
Meanwhile the Defense Committee, which also had had its doubts about the Alcoa contract, questioned Alcoa's Vice President Irving W. Wilson, Counsel Oscar R. Ewing, Chief Engineer Thomas D. Jolly in an effort to find something to damn. The Alcoans testified that they construed the contract to give the Government every right the committee thought the Government should have: final word on plant sites and specifications, permission to inspect Alcoa's own plants and cost figures for comparison with the Government-owned operations, etc. To criticisms that the contract set no starting dates, they replied that...
Franklin Roosevelt's "old friend and neighbor" did not look like the operating' head of a big dyestuffs and camera com pany at first blush. His most famous previous jobs: 1) defense counsel (successful) of Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman in the scandalous 1921 divorce suit brought against her by her husband, the late New York Banker James A. Stillman; 2) representing Edward ("Daddy") Browning in the "Peaches" Browning 1926 separation action; 3) defense counsel (un successful) for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Martin T. Manton against bribery charges...