Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowds hissed her as she was driven to her trial in the prison van. Her dressy friends flocked to see the trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic...
University action was prompted by the following letter from the Office of Scientific Personnel in the National Research Counsel...
...Senators knew they would find plenty wrong. From facts his investigators had dug up, Committee Counsel Hugh Fulton wanted to know...
...course should make him feel that he knows even less than he knew before, this warning just doesn't make sense. For an undergraduate researcher in chemistry, confused and unable to see his special problem in its proper perspective, who comes to his instructor, expecting and receiving advice and counsel, the pointing finger of alarm just doesn't seem to point...
...Reporter Moffitt's Hollywood eye it seemed that the Senators were working without a script. There was Senator Tobey ("He has a nervous trick of making dainty thrusts with his cigaret ... as though he were giving the hot foot to invisible pixies"). There was Wendell Willkie, counsel for the motion-picture industry, who upset the proceedings at the start. Denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, Lawyer Willkie jumped the gun with a 2,600-word blast defending the industry, attacking the legality of the Committee, and pointing grimly at the anti-Semitism he found in the proceedings...