Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed Charles Fahy, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, to be Assistant Solicitor General...
...support, make suggestions, consult. Some of them had been waved in & out of Colorado Springs for a smile, a handshake, a drink. Many -like William ("Bill") Ditter, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee-had never been consulted at all. Others-like Henry Fletcher, the Republicans' general counsel, who had gone to Colorado Springs with a 14-page legalistic essay on how the G. O. P. could get around the Hatch Act limit of $3,000,000 on national-campaign spending-had been shown the door. How could anyone so politically insensible win the biggest political game...
Westward to get this news flew a covey of G. O. P. professionals: National Chairman Joe Martin, General Counsel Henry Prather Fletcher, Executive Director John D. M. Hamilton, several others. They found Wendell Willkie on the sixth floor of The Broadmoor hotel, having the time of his life. In shirt sleeves, crinkled trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms...
...first surprise was sprung by Alfredo Navarrete, general counsel of the Mexican Mine Workers Syndicate. Rugged, husky-voiced, audacious and experienced, Alfredo Navarrete is a conservative who is against political control of labor unions. He announced that his Syndicate, which claims 125,000 members, would break away from CTM (Mexican Confederation of Labor) and try to form a new Popular Front with 102,000 railway workers, 16,000 oil workers, 11,000 electrical workers, 8,000 sugar workers. He promised that his organization would be non-political and "free from radicalism"-free, that is, from the influence of Communists. Though...
Sirs: The European democracies are now paying the price for having followed the counsel of the Appeasement Group-Chamberlain, Bonnet, the Cliveden...