Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHRB radio programs are providing an unwelcome accompaniment to the teaching efforts of the Bureau of Study Counsel and other University offices located near the station's transmitter on Dunster Street...
...magazines. The New Republic felt that the Department of Justice "should be kept as free as possible from the suspicion of political taint," and darkly suggested that Bobby's appointment "will give aid and comfort to the enemies of integration." The Nation deplored Bobby's conduct as counsel for the McClellan Committee: "He engaged in personal vendettas; he made it known that he was out to 'get' named individuals." But charges of nepotism were rare, and almost no one saw fit to bring up Bobby's brief service, in 1953, as an assistant counsel under...
...Newspaper Guild in a strike against Hearst in 1938, he became a labor specialist. (During the war he served with distinction as the OSS contact with Europe's underground labor movement.) In 1948 Goldberg committed himself to the labor movement when the late Phil Murray made him general counsel of the Steelworkers' union. At the wedding of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955, he was one of the main marriage brokers. Since then, he has become special counsel (and ex officio policy adviser) to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and on occasion has worn the legal wigs...
...labyrinth. Soon after he graduated from the University of Virginia law school (1951), he joined the Justice Department's criminal division as a junior investigator, plunged into the ultimately unsuccessful prosecution of Foreign Policy Adviser Owen Lattimore for Communist activities. In 1952 Bobby moved over to be assistant counsel of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee, but quit after a much-publicized row with Chief Counsel Roy Cohn. Later Bobby rejoined the committee as minority counsel for the Democratic members, wound up as chief counsel after the Democrats won the Senate...
...years Bobby was lost in the shadow cast by his big brother, but in 1958 he emerged as a public figure in his own right, as counsel for the Senate labor-management rackets committee. As he unfolded the sordid exposé of corruption and crime in the Teamsters and other big unions, Bobby momentarily overshadowed Jack, and his curled-lip intensity and Yankee twang became a television staple. It was a skillful, relentless and aggressive investigation, conducted at the man-killing pace that has become Bob Kennedy's trademark. When Jack decided to run for the presidency, Bobby cheerfully...