Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stature, but they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers as Beanie Baldwin, a onetime Wallace aide in the Agriculture Department. The Abts and Baldwins formed...
Dogged to the end, some Londoners stuck rigidly to their bowlers and black jackets. But as the mercury climbed ever higher & higher, bared braces began to appear here & there. The Hon. Mr. Justice Birkett of the King's Bench Division permitted counsel to remove their wigs, while at Westminster the members of Britain's Board of Trade took bathing suits off the ration list ten days ahead of schedule. "The sun," said one official, "melted our resistance...
Died. William Nelson Cromwell, 94, eminent New York corporation lawyer (founding partner of Sullivan & Cromwell); in Manhattan. One of the organizers of U.S. Steel, Cromwell was the last surviving principal (as general counsel) of the dubious New Panama Canal Co. that paid French engineering interests an estimated $5,000,000 "for canal rights in Panama, talked Theodore Roosevelt into buying them up for $40 million...
...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...
...Eaton called off the contract for his Otis & Co. to underwrite $11.7 million of new stock for the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. (TIME, Feb. 23). His out was a suit filed by Stockholder James F. Masterson against K-F in connection with the new issue. (K-F's counsel called the suit a "phony.") When SEC began to investigate,Witness Eaton swore that he knew nothing about the Masterson suit until after it was filed...