Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticlimax. By the time Joe McCarthy raised a broad right hand and took the witness' oath at midweek, the suspicions, facts, hunches, charges and countercharges had been so well chewed over in seven weeks of hearings that not a morsel of fresh meat remained. On Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins' invitation to draw upon his "knowledge and experience," McCarthy first gave a lengthy lecture on Communist Party organization and tactics, amply illustrated for TV viewers by a large map (which Joe acknowledged was four years out of date...
Saul Moskoff, Assistant Corporation Counsel, who is conducting the present inquiry in behalf of the Superintendent, referred to a 1939 law for legal precedent. The Devany Law required all applicants for employment and promotion in the school system to answer questions about Communist, Fascist and Nazi ties...
...Education) the fact that a teacher is so summoned," Moskoff said. And the evidence bears out the great secrecy of the interviews at which a lawyer may accompany the summand teacher. If any charges are levied against a teacher he has the right to a public trial, to counsel, to confront and cross-examine accusers and to testify in his own defense. He cannot be fired until his guilt has been proved before a court of law with rights of appeal and reinstatement should dismissal be held improper...
...proceedings against the three followed an almost identical pattern. On June 17, 1953, each was summoned without prior notice and without counsel to appear before an ad hoc committee composed of the president of the college, Admiral J.L. Kauffman; the chairman of the board of trustees, P.E. Foerderer; the school's dean, Dr. George A. Bennet; and D. Hays Sollis-Cohen, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and member of the board...
Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...