Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he was made him of far greater interest to the U.S. newspaper-reading public: he had just been named the Mundt committee counsel, the man who would direct the investigation of the row between Joe McCarthy and the U.S. Army...
...Help. Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt, in his three-week search for a counsel, had said, "This job is seeking the man; the man shouldn't seek the job." But Sam Sears was no worm to hide in that old chestnut. He telephoned his Congressman, Boston's Laurence Curtis, to say that he was available. Curtis told Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, who told Mundt, who told Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, a committee member, to locate Sears and invite him to Washington...
...sights on Ike; the Democratic tar get for '54, he indicated, was to be the President himself. In Charlotte last week, Ike was all but praised. Stevenson's target became the men around Ike and the G.O.P. itself. "When our President bestirs himself, ignores the expedient counsel of small-bore politicians and clears the high-pressure salesmen out of his house." said Stevenson, "I confidently predict that the American people will be enthusiastically and gratefully behind him. But I fear he will have to make his choice between uniting his party and uniting his nation . . . He cannot...
...This Tormented Land." One after another, the remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any civilized nation this side of the Iron Curtain . . . absolutely illegal. These men are not criminals. They are victims.This is a mockery...
...principals in turn, and, mostly, in their own words. It highlighted the interesting process by which Senator McCarthy has sought, in a few short weeks, to change his role from that of participant in the fray to that of a sorrowing observer of an unfortunate scuffle between his counsel, Roy Cohn, and the Army's counsel, John Adams. Daly was eminently successful in his announced purpose of taking up one subject each week "and wringing...