Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved on Washington. Because of his cotton interests (Cleveland Cloth Mills) and various directorships, he was able to lead the life of a prosperous lawyer. An early New Dealer, he attracted the favorable attention of Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he did odd jobs such as acting as special counsel to FCC. But he fought the court-packing plan...
...advisers were divided. His "labor specialist," Reconversion Director John Roy Steelman, was plainly for appeasement. His crony, George Allen, the rolypoly RFC director, didn't want to be mad at anybody when the battle opened. But handsome, 39-year-old Attorney Clark Clifford, the President's counsel, ghostwriter and onetime naval aide, clamored to stand and fight. The Secretary of the Interior, huge J. A. ("Cap") Krug, agreed. So did Attorney General Tom Clark. So did the President...
High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham's patience had reached the breaking point. For the fourth time in five days he summoned 62-year-old Isaac Ben Zvi, acting head of the Jewish Agency. In the thickly carpeted lounge of Government House on the Hill of Evil Counsel, Cunningham gave the bespectacled Jewish leader a frank warning that the British troops might be hard to control. The Jewish Agency would have to take positive action...
Denny, high-strung and high-powered is no novice in the job. He has been acting chairman for the past ten months. He had been a commissioner before that, and FCC counsel also. And he has definite ideas about radio's place and purpose. He voiced some of them last winter when he helped to write FCC's now-famous "Blue Book," which demanded that radio serve the public first, advertisers second-or stop broadcasting. Despite the storm the "Blue Book" raised, Denny stands by it. He told broadcasters at their Chicago convention last October, "We will...
From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...