Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conferred at length with Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace; then the Cabinet; then with five Cabinet members, Defense Chief Knudsen, Senators Barkley, Connally, Harrison and George, Representatives Rayburn, McCormack and Bloom, Luther Johnson and Treasury Counsel Edward H. Foley Jr. Subject: new lend-lease bill to aid Britain without limit...
...burst of oratory Defendant Diez's counsel ripped at the evidence, swore it had been twisted, that exonerating portions had been skipped over. Other Diez sympathizers blamed the whole charge on Nazi-inspired anti-Semitism working through a controlled press. They pointed out that Diez himself had demanded the trial to put a stop to malicious gossiping...
General Hershey heard National C. I. O. Secretary James Barron Carey and General Counsel Lee Pressman defend labor's right to strike in defense industries, heard them oppose any move to abridge the right to strike, for whatever reason. He heard other speakers cry for more representation of labor on draft boards. But diplomatic Lewis Hershey confined him self to a cogent generality that was buzzing that day, as it had for weeks past, in many a citizen's mind. The U. S. must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence...
Last week's public hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...
...week's end, not only dismissal but jail faced Dr. Selsam and 24 other members of the Teachers Union. Because they had refused, on advice of counsel, to testify at a private hearing before Senator Coudert, the legislative committee decided to cite them for contempt...