Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President usually takes a while to name a successor. Franklin Roosevelt waited six months, for example, before naming Frankfurter to succeed Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg (TIME cover, Sept. 22. 1961). Longtime general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that his successor be a Jew). Besides, as one knowledgeable New Frontiersman...
...quite equal my ambiguity." But one thing came through quite, clearly. Jacobs blamed Murphy for the basic decision that made Billie Sol's extensive land and cotton-allotment shenanigans possible. Also pointing a finger at Murphy was Witness John Bagwell, the Agriculture Department's general counsel...
...this he said, 'This won't do!' and he canceled those cotton allotments." That, in McClellan's mind, seemed to leave Murphy, a Government careerist who helped draft the New Deal's second Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1938 and who served as special counsel to Harry Truman, as the chief culprit...
...both parties. Yet for nearly a year the Senate has dillydallied over the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall as a judge on the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). Why? Because a handful of Southern Senators object to Marshall as the longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the man who successfully argued the 1954 school integration case before the Supreme Court...
...appointment went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Eastland assigned a three-man subcommittee under South Carolina's Olin Johnston to study the nomination. When the subcommittee finally got down to business in July, Johnston looked on benignly as Subcommittee Counsel Lincoln Lipscomb, a Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member of the Judiciary Committee, felt compelled...