Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the 15 YDCHR members who heard Walter were generally impressed by him and agreed with his observation that HUAC is not "bloodthirsty" as its critics maintain. After Walter spoke to the group, Alfred M. Nittle, the Committee's counsel, spent 45 minutes defending HUAC's legality in response to questions. Nittle claimed that Chief Justice Earl Warren offered "a gratuitous insult to the people" when he asked what un-American meant in a recent dissenting opinion. "The term is no more vague than due process," Nittle pointed out, "which the Court has no trouble trying to interpret...
...Called E. The Crown's case rested on Valerie's identification. Vigorously, Hanratty's defense counsel tried to prove that she had been hysterically out of her senses the night of the murder and thus was unable to identify the murderer correctly. Taking the stand in his own behalf. Hanratty said that he had spent the night of the murder alone in a rooming house near Liverpool. He remembered that the house had a green bath in the attic, but he had not signed the guest register and could find no witness who could positively remember having...
...Abernethy, 55, an A.M.C. vice president since 1954, will boss day-to-day operations as the company's new president. He is called chief operations officer, while Richard Eugene Cross, 51, A.M.C. legal counsel and new chairman, will be called chief executive officer. Both will serve on a six-man policy committee charged with long-range planning. Cross plans to remain with his Detroit law firm but will I devote a "major portion" of his time to A.M.C. affairs...
...weeks, Dwight Eisenhower had been soaking up the sun in Palm Desert, Calif., playing golf, working on his memoirs, and keeping his own counsel. Then, last week, he flew into Los Angeles for a round of speechmaking that proved he still had the old political magic: he stopped traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
...Well, what bill do you think we should have put in?" asked FCC's Chief Counsel Ashbrook P. Bryant...