Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway experiments-the sort of minority programming that network executives claim is uneconomical. But that vision did not reckon with the relentless opposition of movie exhibitors and the broadcasting lobbies in Washington. Over the years the TV industry kept insisting, as the National Association of Broadcasters' chief counsel put it, that pay TV "would convert a free highway into a toll road. It would require the public to pay for what they now view for free...
...then, Nixon was a newly elected Congressman and Rogers the counsel for the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. It was in this period after World War II that Nixon formed most...
...Alger Hiss case, while Rogers pursued the five-percenters and saw some of them sentenced to jail. Rogers had earned so good a reputation for the way he conducted investigations that when the Democrats took control of his reconstituted committee after 1948, he was kept on as chief counsel of an investigating subcommittee. At the 1952 convention, both men worked for Eisenhower's nomination. The Vice Presidentelect recommended his friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General Herbert Brownell resigned in 1957, Rogers, then 44, succeeded him. Rogers was best known for vigorous...
...greying head raised high, tried to walk from the room, an elderly man slapped his face and cried: "Shame, you blood judge, for all the victims you have on your conscience!" Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütz called the decision "outrageous." Robert Kempner, a former U.S. deputy chief of counsel at the Nürnberg Trials, who now lives in Frankfurt, described the ruling as "the greatest setback of German justice since 1945." For once, the New Left and the right-wing press of Axel Springer found themselves in agreement. Both condemned the judgment as outrageously lenient...
...knows only too well that a general computer price cut might drive some smaller competitors to the wall. IBM is also sensitive about its size, and about the fact that the Justice Department has long had it under examination. Beginning in January, Tom Watson's new general counsel and vice president will be Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General. Another vice president is Burke Marshall, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General...