Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village of Zuzela near Bialystok. He earned a doctorate in Canon Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lublin, and became known as a "labor priest." He wrote several books on such subjects as unemployment and the rights of labor, was even beginning to act as counsel in labor disputes when, in 1939, the Nazis blitzed Poland...
...Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...such a NATO meeting had been held on German soil. Arriving at the airport, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles referred to it: "Two years ago a sovereign, democratic and peace-loving German state, arisen from the ashes of war, joined this organization. Now we meet on German soil to counsel together on how to advance further that common welfare...
Pace is a lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 175 Ibs.), personable Arkansan who has been considered something of a boy wonder ever since he graduated from high school at 14. After Princeton ('33) and Harvard Law School, he became assistant district attorney in Arkansas and general counsel for the Arkansas department of revenue. In World War II he rose to major in the Army Air Corps, returned to work under the Attorney General and the Postmaster General in Washington. Harry Truman made him budget director in 1949, and Pace produced a healthy budget surplus ($3.5 billion...
...world. [But] Christians claim that the truth, incarnate, now picks and chooses among them the possibilities for the world's good. The cults try to put truths at the service of men. The church tries to put men at the service of truth . . . Nothing but confusion of counsel can come from attempts to gloss over that...