Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type that makes good in life insurance." Parkinson did so well outside insurance that eventually the insurance men came to him. After practicing law for five years, he helped revise New York City's administrative code (the rules and regulations of city departments), became legislative counsel for the U.S. Senate, wound up as dean of Columbia University's faculty of law. In 1920, Equitable hired him as second vice president and sent him off to Europe to salvage what he could of the multimillion trust funds it had been required to set up in banks to guarantee...
...engineered the court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well...
...traditional top hat, striped pants, red sash and morning coat, the President of France is a beloved symbol of republican pomp. He wields no executive power; he cannot initiate or veto legislation. But he can-if the situation demands and permits-counsel, guide and admonish. During France's periodic Cabinet crises, when he must direct the dancelike ritual from which new governments emerge, he seems a heartening symbol of stability. Premiers come and go, but the President remains (for a seven-year term, at least...
...could do to hold it. Perhaps the most telling tactic of the Russians was their teamwork. In tournament chess matches, it is illegal to prompt a player as he sits at the board, but when a game has been adjourned (e.g., overnight), it is perfectly proper to take counsel from "seconds" (other players, who help map further strategy). The Russians happily seconded one another at every opportunity; Reshevsky's second was his non-chess-playing wife. Sipping countless cups of tea, Reshevsky managed to wind up in a triple tie for second place with two Russians...
...Cohn, chief counsel for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said the committee had decided to call Furry for two main reasons...