Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Braves, in an all-out public-relations effort, offered night baseball fans a dinner at Boston's staid Somerset Hotel, a seat at the game and cab rides to and from the ball park-all for $4.50. The corporation counsel for the District of Columbia said that it is legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard...
More than 3,000 cases before the National Labor Relations Board will be thrown out unless the unions involved register and file non-Communist affidavits within 20 days, the NLRB general counsel announced last night in Washington...
Hughes went on to tell of "certain events" which followed a breakdown of discussions for a merger of his T.W.A. with Juan Trippe's Pan American. He said that the Senate subcommittee's assistant counsel, Francis Flanagan, bobbed up at Hughes's office and "started getting very tough about this investigation. ... It was quite apparent to me that this was the application of the screws...
...Senator got in strong, specific denials. "Not a word" had been said at the Mayflower luncheon about calling off the investigation. Then Brewster sprang his own sensation: the strong implication that Hughes had tried to scare him off the investigation. Brewster said that Hugh Fulton, onetime chief counsel of the committee (under Harry Truman) and later one of Hughes's lawyers, came to him "as a friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That, said Brewster, incensed...
...seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...