Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve as assistant attorney general. Moving along fast, Anderson became state tax commissioner at 24, head of the state unemployment commission at 26. In 1937 the W. T. Waggoner Estate, a 500,000-acre cattle, wheat and oil empire sprawling over six Texas counties, hired him away as general counsel. When the estate's general manager died in 1941, old Guy Waggoner called the clan together and said, "Let's let this boy run the business," meaning Robert Anderson, then 31. His pay as general manager: $60,000 a year, plus hefty bonuses...
...paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon because of his "brazenfaced defense of Chinese aggression in Tibet." Menon, who has been in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, flew home at week's end to give his counsel to Nehru...
Committee Counsel Robert W. Lishman: In that respect, Mr. Kintner, I would like to call your attention to an article which appeared in TIME Magazine April 22, 1957, more than a year before this time. The opening sentence indicates its tenor: "Are the quiz shows rigged?" It points out with reference to a number of quiz shows that there was a great deal of suspicion. It concludes: "The producers seem to be able to control virtually everything except their own fears of losing their audience...
...James Forrestal. When Forrestal became the first Defense Secretary and Symington's boss, Symington fought him again to try to get more Air Force funds-fought with a tenacity that Forrestal's friends will never forgive. "That damn guy never lets up," Forrestal complained to White House Counsel Clark Clifford. "He is absolutely relentless...
...Counsel for the Arboretum maintains in its final brief that by moving six-sevenths of the total Arnold collection to Cambridge, the University has violated the trust which stipulated that they must act "in the sole interest of the Arnold Arboretum." Furthermore, by arranging for the Arboretum director to teach undergraduate botany courses, Harvard is clearly benefiting "other interests...