Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred C. Scribner, Jr., General Counsel of the Republican Party, gave Graduate Young Republicans an insider's view of party fortunes yesterday, and concluded that the last elections were "not very encouraging...
Apparently the Russians considered Melekh exceedingly important. His counsel was expensive Edward Bennett Williams, the U.S.'s most famous criminal trial lawyer. Sometime defender of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Teamster Boss James Hoffa and Gambling Chieftain Frank Costello, Lawyer Williams had several conferences with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the Melekh case-a strange twist, since Bobby Kennedy has long been bitter toward Williams for thwarting his efforts to bring down his old enemy Jimmy Hoffa...
...convicted in Maryland of murdering a mother and her five-year-old daughter (in Virginia he is charged with killing the same family's father and a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter). WBAL induced the jurors to enact The Verdict Is Ours after receiving the counsel of its legal advisers, who assured the station that no permission was necessary from Judge Thomsen or anyone else. "If we had felt that it might influence the sentencing, we wouldn't have done it," said Promotion Director Henry F. Hines. "We felt that what we were doing...
...between church and state has been the election of official chaplains by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Once they preached at the Capitol on Sundays. Today their duties consist of a short prayer beginning each day's session, plus sick calls, marriages, baptisms, funerals and spiritual counsel for the legislators and their staffs. For this, Methodist Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris of the Senate and Presbyterian Chaplain Bernard Braskamp of the House are paid $8,800 a year...
...wheels of justice, noted for turning slowly, practically ground to a halt in the morning during Ross's cross-examination of Frank S. Tavener, Jr., HUAC counsel during the 1955 hearings. The witness answered only about 10 questions and 56 of Ross's inquiries were ruled...