Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Misfired his first veto at the Both Congress. The bill was a Senate resolution authorizing his old friend Burt Wheeler to continue private law practice while serving as counsel for the Senate special war investigating committee. The President vetoed it, because of technicalities, on the advice of Attorney General Tom Clark, discovered to his embarrassment that he had signed similar legislation before. To save the presidential face, the Senate agreed to redraft the bill, send it through again...
...find a few fenders bumping into each other, that's all," prophesied Judge Edward A. Counthan, counsel for the Cambridge Taxi Company, as he commented on yesterday's City ruling which threw former private taxi stands open to all back trade...
...said little that he had not said before. He quoted figures: house furnishings were up 23% above 1945; clothing up 24%; food up 31%; wholesale prices were even higher all along the line. Once prices were lowered, he expected labor to do its part by following his "counsel of moderation," farmers to keep production high. Government could help best, he said, by keeping taxes up, reducing the debt, holding fast to rent, export and credit controls...
...Britain this winter, Winston Churchill led 21 thoughtful fellow countrymen* in a manifesto. "If Europe is to survive, it must unite," they declared. "Since for the moment governments find it difficult to take the initiative ... let men of good will in all countries take counsel together that Europe may arise...
...Charity: "A wise old man with whom I was taking counsel once said these profound words to me, which I recommend to thinkers: 'The Saints give Alms, the Bourgeois alone give to Charity...