Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweltering day in Washington last summer Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register strolled into the offices of the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to see the chief counsel, Robert Francis Kennedy. Things were kind of quiet around town, said Mollenhoff: there must be something worth investigating. Asked Kennedy: "Have you any ideas?" Mollenhoff, who had been writing stories about corruption and abuses in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for six years, indeed had an idea: the Teamsters. He showed Kennedy some of his clippings, and emphasized the national significance of what newsmen had been digging...
...University of Virginia Law School (class of '51), Bob spent a year with the Justice Department, resigned to manage brother Jack's successful senatorial campaign, then landed a job with the Senate Subcommittee. He worked as calmly as he could under Joe McCarthy's Chief Counsel Roy Cohn, who taunted Kennedy as "a cute kid," complained that Kennedy did not like him. Bristling like a Boston terrier, Kennedy retorted: "If I have any dislike, it's well justified...
Under snickersnee-sharp questions from Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (and duller ones from politically minded committee members, e.g., "Do you really feel that this is within the boundaries of basic Americanism . . .?"), Brewster squirmed about a $99,999 bank roll listed by his own Seattle Local 174 under "Special Fund...
...time Frank Brewster had thankfully left the hearing room, the McClellan committee was already gearing itself for an even more important Teamster: President Dave Beck, who was scheduled to show up this week (Counsel Kennedy promised to prove that Beck had taken at least $270,000 from the Western Teamsters). But although he would soon be smothered by Beck headlines. Frank Brewster would not soon be forgotten. The meaning of his testimony was perhaps best phrased by Republican Committee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Amid all the big moneymaking of the Teamsters' leaders, asked Mundt, where did "John...
Aside from his grandmother losing her rest, the now retired counsel, who termned himself an "overindulgent citizen," lost some sleep of his own. In underworldly dealings in behalf of the paper, he had solicited funds avidly. He quoted some of these dealings; in particular, the approach used toward one well-endowed Republican: "Lippy, I need some money." This technique had kept the publication from insolvency, but only through the efforts of counsel...