Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after 66 years in the meatpacking business. Into the chairmanship went Wilson's redhaired, Princeton-educated son, Edward Foss Wilson, 48, president since 1934. Wilson's new president and chief executive officer: trim (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) James D. Cooney, 60, a country lawyer turned corporation counsel, who joined Wilson in 1926. Educated at the University of Iowa, Cooney learned to fly in World War I, later hung out his shingle at West Union, Iowa, and rose to district judge handling "mine-run cases, from murders to accidents involving model T Fords." A Wilson vice president since...
...upright piano. More often the family just sat around the living room and chatted until 9:30 or 10, when Ike was ready to go to bed. Once last week Ike stretched his evening out, sat up late for a bull session with Presidential Aide Robert Cutler and Special Counsel Bernard Shanley, who were in town briefly from Washington. About midnight, shortly before Cutler's plane left, the party broke up in a fashion not untypical of the American male. The "boys" barged in on Mamie, who had retired early, and sat around the bed teasing the mildly protesting...
...face was Welburn S. Mayock, Washington lawyer, loyal Democrat and self-styled "political manager." Now a grizzled, paunchy 59, Mayock began politicking as a 14-year-old Democratic precinct worker in his native California, rose to be counsel to the treasurer of the national committee in 1944-46, organizer and treasurer of the national Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Often called "Judge Mayock," he explains that the title is a "phony," conferred by friends who wanted to "adorn a person of no importance...
...settlement one way or the other, and "never suspected" that $30,000 of Mayock's fee would go to the party coffers. But Mayock said that his contact with Snyder was "political." And a former BIR official testified that in sending down the special ruling, General Counsel Charles Oliphant (a headliner in Tax Scandals of 1951-52) wrote on the document: "This approval applies only in this case." That seemed to make the decision not a mere speed-up but an instance of special treatment. It looked as though the newest Scandals might have a long...
...vice chairman "for one fundamental reason: I have long felt that younger men should be given the opportunity to carry forward the aggressive policy of our company." The policy calls for construction of 35 to 40 new supermarkets by the end of 1954. His successor: Vice President and General Counsel Louis Stein (Friedland's nephew), 47, who joined Food Fair in 1929 as general counsel, was named a director in 1937, vice president...