Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform measure, Kennedy can appear before non-labor audiences as a fighter against union corruption (a stance immeasurably helped by Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's implacable hatred). Before farm audiences, traditionally hostile to labor unions, Jack benefits from identification with his younger brother Bob. the aggressive, much-televised counsel of the Senate's McClellan Committee and author of a briskly selling book about labor corruption, The Enemy Within, At the same time, Jack has tried hard to persuade labor leaders that he is organized labor's staunch friend. He damned President Eisenhower...
...former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, Dean of Harvard Law School Erwin N. Griswold, Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy. "We have a choice between timidity and accepting the responsibility of world leadership," said Chairman Robert Dechert, former Defense Department counsel. "As it stands now, the fundamental evil of the Reservation is that it has provided an excuse for saying that not even the U.S., the leader of the free world, is wholehearted in its support of international judicial processes...
...gendarmes with submachine guns. Then came the verdicts: ten years for Frenchman Alleg, 20 years for the secretary-general of the outlawed Algerian Communist Party and one other Moslem, five to 15 years for five others, acquittals for the last two. Then police picked up the chief defense counsel, handed him an expulsion order and packed him onto a Paris-bound plane...
Boston College Marian Anderson, singer Mus.D. Robert Kennedy, former counsel to the Senate rackets committee LL.D...
Prima-donna manners were rampant on both sides. Equity Chief Counsel Herman Cooper (President Ralph Bellamy was busy in Hollywood, playing F.D.R. in the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello) announced that the union would not go on strike, would simply call evening "meetings" of various casts, shutting down a different show every night. When the union started this "legal harassment" with The Tenth Man, the producers regarded it as a strike, closed all Broadway shows...