Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
Last week in Texas a Negro lawyer who was once a postman tried to force the state university to admit a Negro postman who would like to be a lawyer. Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pleaded the case of Herman Marion Sweatt against the University of Texas (TIME, March 24). The case was now clearly not just another attempt to get "equal facilities" for Negroes, but a major legal assault on educational segregation. Both sides recognized it as the test for similar laws in 17 states...
...million from the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, the resulting crash echoed throughout the West like the crash of a felled Sequoia. Four Republican, four Democratic governors of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington rushed to Seattle's Olympic Hotel to take counsel. Arizona and Nevada sent representatives...
...Silent") Farrow, 57, a stoop-shouldered, 6 ft. 4 in. bishop's-crook of a man who is Rank's chief financial adviser. Few underlings have ever heard Farrow say anything more than "Good morning." Another aide is G. I. Woodham Smith, 51, Rank's chief counsel, who has been described as "a good lawyer, American style-he laughs all the time...
...possible test questions, and scuttling busily in and out of bookstores seeking condensations of course material or outlines on How To Study. Strangely, this itinerary carries them back and forth past Holyoke House, the building that houses a palliative for what ails many of them--the Bureau of Study Counsel...