Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican side, there is little sign of any solid movement to stand against the Democratic attack. The band of liberal Republican Senators who have rallied around Ike before are themselves nervous about his leadership, and have turned to Vice President Nixon for counsel. "In our own self-interest," said one ex-Ikeman, "we've got to convince the electorate that we are more energetic than Eisenhower." New Jersey's Clifford Case has already called for more aid to education than the Administration is expected to propose, and for better defense than it has produced; New York...
...Assistant Navy Secretary Garrison Norton charged that a "dollar straitjacket" had "seriously hampered" missile research and development. As Norton told it, the Navy continually had to get approval from Comptroller McNeil to spend the skimpy R. & D. (research and development) funds voted by Congress. Asked the subcommittee's Counsel Edwin L. Weisl: What experts does McNeil have on his staff to advise him on R. & D. projects? Replied Norton: "None...
...Secretary James H. Douglas ventured that the Air Force's Atlas ICBM would be operational in two years, but he cast doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed...
...knew. He said that there had been $18,500 passed to quash the indictments, and there was not to be a trial." Hixon remembered that at the time "there was quite a bit of talk around that money had been passed to quash the indictment."( Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy: "Passed to whom?" Testified Hixon: "To Judge Schoolfield...
...This ruling could be a real economic disaster for the pipeline companies." So last week said Willard W. Gatchell, general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little publicized ruling would i) greatly curtail FPC's authority to control interstate natural gas prices, and 2) give every major gas consumer the power to block a rate increase...