Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional investigation counsel, Jenkins has had to overcome some of his normal techniques. In this case he is supposed to expedite and clarify; sometimes he seems to drop back into the criminal lawyer's bent for diverting and throwing dust. His flowing language is sometimes confusing and his booming courtroom voice hit the microphones so hard that electricians installed a special guard to keep his mouth at least two inches away. At first, while points of order mounted to disorder, he seemed to be waiting for the judge to stop the nonsense, not realizing that he could prompt Chairman...
...army near the Ohio-Indiana border. St. Clair, whose command of 2,000 had been largely "purchased from prisons, wheelbarrows and brothels at $2 a month," resigned his commission, but was eventually exonerated. By remarkable coincidence, a direct descendant of the general, Boston lawyer James St. Clair, is assistant counsel for Secretary Stevens...
...ARMY'S counsel is easily the smoothest performer, and perhaps the ablest lawyer, in the McCarthy-Army hearings. By the merest tilt of his ample nose, Joseph Nye Welch conveys to millions of televiewers his utter disdain or disbelief; with a gentle pressure of fingertips on his lips or an amused 'sparkle in his eye, he semaphores an attack that will bruise Roy Cohn or disconcert Joe McCarthy...
...spurious-at least in form. After testimony that there was no such letter in the Army files and that J. Edgar Hoover said he had sent no such letter, McCarthy was put on the stand by Ray Jenkins and suffered a humiliating cross-examination at the hands of Army Counsel Joe Welch...
Although McCarthy had said he would not divulge his source even if the committee ordered him to do so, Counsel Jenkins made a sweeping ruling that seemed to let Joe off the hook. Said Jenkins: "It is elementary that the Senator does not have to reveal the name of his informant. . . Otherwise, law-enforcement officers would be so hamstrung . . . that they would never be able to ferret out crime...