Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has become the nation's biggest (400,000 members in 1,200 chapters), best-known civil rights organization. For years it fought the Negro's battles in the courts, achieved its greatest triumph in 1954 after its special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, now a federal appellate judge, successfully argued for the Supreme Court's historic school desegregation decision...
Next to Jimmy Hoffa, there is no terrible Teamster whom Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department would rather put away than Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 46, the chunky, highly paid boss of Local 560 in Hoboken, N.J. As counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in 1959, Bobby himself first put the national finger on Tony by quizzing him about payoffs from trucking officials in return for labor peace. When court-appointed federal monitors supervised the Teamsters for a time, Provenzano was one of three officials they ordered Hoffa to fire. Instead, Hoffa elevated Tony to a vice-presidency...
White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey flew west from Washington with John F. Kennedy, and discovered "the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of campaign time," as the President got in some political licks along with his official visits. While the President kept his counsel, it was clear that he was carefully watching all four top Republican presidential prospects-and taking a special new interest in Michigan's Governor George Romney. In Michigan, Governor Romney talked with Detroit Correspondent Ben Cate, and held meticulously to his position that he is not a candidate. But one of his aides, in a moment...
Northeast. In New England, Rocky's forces are shaken. Maine, where the Rockefeller family has summered for years, still likes Rocky. But, says Portland's Fred Scribner, general counsel of the G.O.P. National Committee: "Re marriage will really hurt Rockefeller." In Massachusetts, Harvard Business School Lecturer George Lodge (son of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.), a liberal Republican says, "I don't at this stage have a candidate." Frederick Dumaine Jr., newly elected Massachusetts G.O.P. chairman, represents Goldwater people. Says Lloyd Waring, a four-time National Convention delegate and an influential Massachusetts Republican: "Goldwater is definitely strengthening. There...
...decision stands after future appeals, it could open all the cigarette companies to damage claims from Florida lung cancer victims or their heirs and set an influential, though not inflexible, precedent that courts in other states will refer to. Says Chester Inwald, general counsel of the National...