Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highest-priced international lawyers and outstanding nonprofessional diplomats. As senior partner of the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, he worked into a practice that included half the governments of Europe. His part-time public service, which got under way at Versailles when he acted as a counsel to the World War I U.S. Peace Commission, reached its peak when he pushed through the World War II Japanese Peace Treaty almost singlehanded...
Last week, as they started their higher education, the nation's freshmen got some counsel from three college presidents: ¶ Go slow, warned Brown's Dr. Henry M. Wriston, in choosing a vocation. "At your age," Wriston said, "worry about how you are going to make your living leads to impulsive selections . . . Premature choices tend to lead you into, and freeze you in, occupations which will be inadequately rewarding spiritually, which may curb mental enjoyment." Most men in middle life are bored with their jobs because they "selected their vocation in a search for security instead of adventure...
...Counsel for the Defense. In Oklahoma City, on trial for forgery, ex-Convict Ralph Acuff decided to act as his own lawyer, put himself on the witness stand, asked questions and answered them, but failed to convince the jury, which deliberated for 45 minutes, found him guilty as charged...
...objections: he repeated Durkin's point and also balked at a provision to replace the NLRB with a "Labor Court." These were small points, and it looked as if the A.F.L.'s (and therefore Durkin's) approval could easily be obtained. But Department of Commerce General Counsel Stephen F. Dunn, representing the management viewpoint, objected to omissions from the list...
...Noted with alarm that lawyers of "outstanding" reputations have recently been subjected to "severe personal vilification" for representing Communists, persons accused of being Communists, and racketeers. The house of delegates reminded the nation that 1) every defendant has a right to counsel, and every lawyer has a duty to give counsel "even to the most unpopular" defendant; 2) such representation does not mean that the lawyer shares his client's "views or character...