Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1, Chairman Jesse Jones admonished all RFC employes to abstain from active politics, except voting. Presumably exempted: Special RFC Counsel Tommy Corcoran, top political cowboy for the White House, who does his campaigning not among voters but among politicians...
...Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery...
...seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
...Workers Alliance of America, which boasts that it controls 2,000,000 WPA votes, last week took steps to follow Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams' counsel to "keep your friends in power!" (TIME, July 4.) To every candidate for Congress, President David Lasser of the Alliance sent a questionnaire, the answers to which would be "made available to your constituency." Sample question: "Do you favor an increase in wages to the WPA workers to permit them a minimum decent existence...
...national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager to move in on Curran headquarters in Manhattan, move out Curran men and policies, Fireman King & friends were aware that the dissension was made to order for such N. M. U. enemies as A. F. of L.'s Longshoreman Joe Ryan...