Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach's pet projects will certainly get fresh attention: the need for better legal aid for the poor. The department's new Office of Criminal Justice is studying the questions of bail, proper counsel and pretrial publicity as they affect indigents...
Chicago takes particular pride in Cook County Judge Edith S. Sampson, 63, a strong-faced woman with an acid tongue for lawyers and infinite compassion for underdogs. A trained social worker, Judge Sampson got her master of laws degree at Loyola University, spent seven years as assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, and was twice appointed a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. In 1962 she became the nation's first elected Negro woman judge (four others now serve elsewhere); last fall she won a full six-year term at $26,500 a year...
...long-predicted resignations of four White House aides appointed by John Kennedy had at last occurred. P. Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, two of Kennedy's closest friends, quit, as did Dr. Janet Travell, J.F.K.'s first White House physician, and Myer Feldman, his counsel. Although Johnson did not acknowlege it last week, Larry O'Brien, Kennedy's trusted aide on Capitol Hill, was set to resign as soon as Johnson's legislative proposals are launched...
...phenomenon comparable to the effect of 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which led to the retrial and acquittal of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon and gave all defendants the right to counsel in state criminal trials. In Florida alone, 5,554 previously convicted prisoners have since petitioned for new trials, and 1,081 have already won their freedom...
Internal Revenue. As Internal Revenue Commissioner, a job left vacant since Mortimer Caplin resigned in July, the President picked Sheldon S. Cohen, 37, who just a year ago left the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter to become chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service. There Cohen streamlined the legal branch, pruned excess personnel, installed automatic data-processing and microfilm files for his 650 attorneys. He hammered the point home to his staff that the Government's aim in any tax litigation was not just to win the case but to set principles of law. Cohen hopes...