Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appeared before movie cameras in the Rose Garden to record a message to Sir Winston Churchill: "We shall never accept the thought that we are to be denied your counsel, your advice. Out of your great experience, your great wisdom and your great courage, the free world yet has much to gain...
...Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...Counsel for Mr. Morgan. Slowly, John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York began to pull ahead of the other also-rans, until William Jennings Bryan, den mother of the Democrats, cast aside his palmetto fan and rose to denounce Davis as the advocate of Wall Street. Next day William Randolph Hearst's supreme pundit, Arthur Brisbane, reported it: "Instantly, Davis' vote dropped away to practically nothing, and there it will stay. For. as Mr. Bryan said, you can't nominate the lawyer of J. Pierpont Morgan for President of the United States." The following...
Foreground. Whether or not this clear-eyed British counsel reached his ears or understanding, Roosevelt ignored it. Bohlen's minutes show the President ready to give Stalin just what he wanted...
...spectators burst into applause when Queeg broke on the witness stand under the defense counsel's hammering. But this, Dr. Miller judged, was in appreciation of the fine performance. By and large, the audience sympathized deeply with the man who broke under stress...