Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great constitutional question: What are the limits of presidential power? In peace and war, U.S. Presidents have often demonstrated that the authority of their office can be stretched far beyond the specific provisions of the Constitution. But it remained for the Truman Administration, speaking last week through its counsel in a federal courtroom, to argue that the presidential power is practically unlimited...
Cavers joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, after serving as Associate General Counsel for the Office of Price Administration. Earlier, he taught at Harvard, the University of West Virginia, and Duke University...
...testified that Grunewald's lawyer, an old friend, had asked him to look into the Klein case. He did so and concluded that Klein was unjustly treated, but he insisted that his interest was purely casual-the sort of thing he would do for any taxpayer. The committee counsel, Adrian W. DeWind, then began reading from one of Washington's most interesting documents, a stenographic log of all Oliphant's telephone conversations and daily appointments, kept by Oliphant's secretary...
...rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied only that "it would be better if he is not too close." "The jury," warned the Court, "will...
...second day of the trial, Slater's counsel, plainly beyond his depth in the occult seas, quit the case and the dapper vaudevillian took over his own defense. Testifying for himself, he said he had hypnotized 25,000 people, and earned up to $15,000 a week doing it, without ever having had such a complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice...