Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which you carried the sad news of the King's death . . . One section of your article said: "In London's High Court, when the news came, King's Counselor Harold Shepherd had just finished cross-examining a defendant . . ." The title is that of King's Counsel-now, of course, Queen's Counsel . . . Incidentally, the incident that you referred to was a trial of a murder case, and because of its nature . . . the judge adjourned it for ten minutes only. Every other court ... in London adjourned until the next...
...Answer Yes or No." Subcommittee Counsel Robert Morris produced an I.P.R. report of a meeting in Moscow (1936) at which Lattimore conferred with top representatives of the I.P.R.'s Russian council. The Russians, Geographer V. E. Motylev and Comintern Veteran G. N. Voitinsky, discussed Pacific Affairs. Motylev asked for a "more definite line" in articles. According to the I.P.R. report: "[Lattimore] said he would like to meet the Soviet suggestion as far as possible ... If the Soviet group would start on such a line, he would be able to make [other councils] cooperate more fully...
...since 1856, when Indians almost captured them all, have Seattle citizens been so threshed up. Their city (pop. 463,000) is deep in a round of newspaper debates, public meetings, private arguments and brawls. Friendships have been strained, and Christian Scientists have taken counsel with medical doctors-all because of a proposal to put sodium fluoride in Seattle's drinking water...
...year, made another chunk playing the market. In 1949, when he was worth $250,000, he felt he "could afford" to go back to SEC as a commissioner. But the job wasn't big enough to keep him busy. So in 1950 he became chief counsel to Senator Lyndon Johnson's "watchdog" committee on preparedness, even though he had to do most of his work at night. He was largely responsible for the committee's reports on wasteful military spending...
After the Conservatives won, Labor officials charged that the ad had illegally influenced the campaign, forced the Crown to file criminal charges under a 1949 law forbidding election expenditures by anyone except candidates or their authorized agents. Argued the Times counsel: If this interpretation of the law is correct, "then it strikes a blow at one of the fundamental liberties of the people-freedom of expression." Last week the Central Criminal Court, after less than two days of testimony, agreed and dismissed the action...