Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet diplomats declared that they would have "nothing to do with the case," refused to send Abel a lawyer or a visa. Needing a defense attorney, Abel asked a U.S. marshal to contact "Abt." The only Lawyer Abt in the Manhattan telephone directory is John J. Abt, 53, longtime counsel for Communists. Said Abt: "I know nothing about him or the case. I don't see how I would have time to defend...
...well hedged with safeguards. A court-though it may issue a temporary restraining order when it deems it necessary to move promptly against the threat of damage or disorder-may issue a permanent injunction only after a public hearing at which the respondent has full rights of counsel, cross-examination and confrontation of witnesses. When it is issued, the injunction demands only that the defendant stop offending. Contempt convictions for failure to comply with injunctions are, like any other convictions, appealable to higher courts...
Standing before Senator John McClellan's labor rackets investigating committee in the Senate caucus room one day last week, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy pointed to a set of charts listing 15 union locals and their officers. These locals, he explained, are only a part of the 58 whose 125,000 members comprise the Teamsters Union Joint Council 16, "the biggest ruling body of the Teamsters in New York City." Teamsters Union Joint Council 16 controls the flow of all goods moving through the city. Said Kennedy: "If the Teamsters are controlled or run by hoodlums or gangsters...
Though no match for the 1951 crime investigations and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, the labor hearings provided compelling, real-life drama in which well-scrubbed Bob Kennedy, the committee's chief counsel, emerged as TV's newest matinee idol. Older Brother Jack, member of the committee, made a winning supporting character. "Just Plain Bill" was Committee Boss John McClellan, who scowled formidably behind his plain-as-rain, legalistic rumblings. Before them paraded a motley collection of sullen ex-Communists, pudgy labor pariahs and Vitalis-smooth lawyers. Unlike Mobster Frank ("Hands") Costello, this year's gallery...
...Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries, will now boss Internal Revenue, customs, the Secret Service, the Coast Guard and narcotics control...