Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, the committee's three Democrats saw their error in denouncing the presidential order as a roadblock to further hearings. And committee Republicans backed away from their hopes to cut the hearings short, gritted their teeth in preparation for what Army Counsel Joseph Welch has labeled "plowing the long furrow...
Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens returned to the Mundt committee's witness stand this week, slightly windburned from a brief Montana vacation. It was his 14th day of testimony. He was called for only one purpose, carefully specified by Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins: was Stevens responsible for the Administration's actions in the case of Private G. David Schine? Or did the responsibility lie higher, perhaps in the White House...
...eloquently when, speaking as President of the Board of Overseers, he charged the new President of this University to pursue "with unremitting vigilance, inquiry into fundamental truths in every field of knowledge, no matter where the trail leads, no matter how unpopular the result." This, and not the cowardly counsel of suspicion and fear, is American doctrine
These who seem to condone the claim of the privilege because the witness may have had "bad advice" are making a bad matter worse by furnishing excuses for continued action thereon. But the claim does not seem to apply here since all the witnesses concerned were represented by counsel of their choosing. In addition, a group of the Harvard Law School faculty formed a committee, under the chairmanship of Professor Arthur E. Sutherland, for the purpose of furnishing free advice and representation to any Harvard faculty members who might be called before an investigating committee. Actually, the most important...
...Richard Weiss, counsel to House Speaker Charles Gibbon said yesterday that the plan is almost certain of receiving House approval. At the same time Representative Nathanial Tilden, chairman of the committee which must pass on the bill, stated that hie is sympathetic with the program's general aims...