Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waples) and chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on ethics. He never won office again, but as a party district leader dutifully rang doorbells in G.O.P. campaigns. Last year Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson called him to fill the Pentagon's top legal spot as general counsel. Brucker was questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy last March about the frayed old Peress case. When McCarthy, reaching for publicity, accused the President of creating a "conspiracy" of silence, Brucker burst out laughing. "It's not funny," growled Joe. When McCarthy asked military witnesses loaded questions, Brucker interrupted crisply...
...Robert, tell us the truth now"). With his resignation all the principals have given up the positions they then held except Joe McCarthy himself, still in the Senate but now stripped of power and prestige. Stevens' successor as Army Secretary: Wilber Brucker, the Defense Department's general counsel, who early this year laughed in McCarthy's face...
Died. Lloyd Paul Stryker, 70, nationally known criminal lawyer and master of old-style courtroom oratory, counsel for Alger Hiss in his first perjury trial (which ended in a hung jury); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...claimant, Louis Hoffner, studied the judge from across the hearing room, his face drawn and tired-looking. "Inherent also in this decision." the judge continued, "must be the fact that the District Attorney's office had possession of evidence which, if known to defendant's counsel, would have prevented this tragic miscarriage of justice...
...Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while the getting was good." Only Wall Street Investor (Goldman, Sachs) Sidney J. Weinberg, 63, a dollar-a-year man in Washington during World War II, spoke out. Norris and his friends, he said...