Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University in Washington, D.C., used to cut classes regularly-whenever John W. Davis came to town. Recalls Marshall: "Every time John Davis argued, I'd ask myself, 'Will I ever, ever . . .?' and every time I had to answer, 'No, never.' " Nowadays Marshall, officially special counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and unofficially (to the Negro press) "Mr. Civil Rights," has his own Howard cheering section. But, though he thinks John Davis "all wrong on civil rights." Marshall stayed up most of one night recently to "edit out the snide cracks...
Four Corners. From the actual plaintiffs and defendants he represents, Marshall gets not a cent; the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Fund (combined annual budget: $500,000) pay him a flat $12,000 a year to give first-class counsel to Jim Crow's "secondclass citizens." Marshall generally has a running headstart on opposing lawyers in civil rights cases; the law he made yesterday is today's precedent. Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening...
Marshall enrolled at Howard. "There," he says, "for the first time, I found out my rights." The late Charles Houston, then Howard's law dean and later N.A.A.C.P.'s counsel, looked on Howard as a self-destroying force: he wanted it to turn out a battery of able Negro lawyers who would one day accomplish the abolition of segregation, and so make Howard obsolete.* Star Student Marshall signed on, eventually (1938) succeeded Houston in the N.A.A.C.P. job. It has taken harddriving, easygoing Marshall to all 48 states, Japan and Korea, has several times put him in hot spots...
When Hallinan begins serving his term, he will not be in a totally unfamiliar environment. In 1952 he spent five months in jail on a contempt-of-court sentence incurred as defense counsel in the perjury trial of West Coast Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
...Communists really want to resume the talks and make sufficient amends, his aides are ready to go on. Dulles had a special reason for sending Dean to Panmunjom: he wanted a fresh reconnaissance of Chinese Communist diplomacy. Dean's counsel: "The best approach to the Communist mentality is to get a reasonable proposal, and stick...