Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brannan Revisited. The failure of Congress and the Administration to cope with the farm scandal has revived talk among Democrats about the once-buried Brannan plan, devised in 1949 by Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton...
...group members will "teach, counsel, and befriend" the delinquents, Rubenstein added, but will not try to "cast themselves in the role of junior psychiatrists...
Toward week's end the free world's biggest headlines dealt not with threats of war, or Communist perfidy or international politicking, but with the fact that one man-U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles-lay ill. "Wise counsel," "singleminded strength," "indispensable man" -the tributes buzzed in dozens of languages and dialects from Tripoli to West Berlin. The British Foreign Office, which had despised him for Suez, was "extraordinarily sorry." The French Foreign Office, which had blamed him for North Africa, now regretted "the greatest possible loss for the West." The Foreign Office of West Germany...
...faces were different, all right, as Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy called three men accused of being big-city pinball kingpins. But, as Kennedy expected, answers were the same: gruff Fifth Amendment monotones were rattled off by hard-eyed John Vitale of St. Louis, Michael Genovese of Pittsburgh, and Frank Zito of Springfield, Ill. Protested Zito with heavy accent: "I recline to answer." But other witnesses were more inclined. Among them...
...Albert S. Denver, president of Music Operators of New York, testified that his association of 160 jukebox operators is gradually being driven out of business, in two years has lost 1,631 "cream" locations to the rival Associated Amusement Machine Operators of New York, whose Teamster bosses, declared Counsel Kennedy, are "successors to Murder...