Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee post was formed with the selection of David c. Poskanzer '50 as counsel for committee heads...
Arrogant and imperturbable as ever, Lewis surveyed the idle coal fields and kept his own counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
Since pre-trial argument began in Manhattan's federal courthouse last January, court stenographers had typed up almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...
Actually, said the booklet, the average Southern editor is not as anti-Negro as he sometimes sounds; he is just trying to give readers "what he thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...
...Kaufman (The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It With You) for permanent panel members. Right from the start it became embarrassingly clear that the problems of most entertainers could be solved more readily with a grain of aspirin than with a pound of prosy counsel. On the opening show, Bandleader Artie Shaw departed from his script to remark: "My problem is that I haven't any problem...