Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another view, however, which enabled a witness to hold his moral convictions about incriminating others without using the Fifth Amendment. First used before the Jenner Committee by Irving Goldman, who teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College, it can best be called "calculated contempt." To Goldman and his counsel, Arthur Garfield Hays, the best way to reconcile one's conscience without harming his college was speaking openly about personal activities, refusing to testify about others...
Smith was the second major figure of the NLRB's powerful years to refuse an answer to the Communist question. In both 1948 and 1950, Nathan Witt, who was the NLRB's assistant general counsel from 1935-37 and then its secretary until 1940, ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz testified that Smith and Witt were "under Communist discipline" while on the NLRB. Later, ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Lee Pressman swore that they had known Witt as a Communist...
Committee counsel Robert Morris later took up the same theme, asking her: "Did you recently deny to the Harvard authorities that you have been a member of the Communist Party...
...basic evil of capital punishment is its discrimination against the poor and against certain racial groups. By virtue of their wealth, the rich can retain able counsel, while the poor usually find themselves with a court appointed attorney. Warden Lawes wrote: "In the twelve years of my wardenship, I have escorted 150 men and one woman to the death chamber and the electric chair. . . They came from all kinds of homes and environments. In one respect, they were all alike. All were poor, and most were friendless. To what end or purpose were these victims sent to their premature deaths...
Harvard's decision to overthrow the restrictions also stemmed from the advice of legal counsel that the NCAA regulations were against anti-trust laws. The Justice Department has in the past declined to give the NCAA a clearance on its limited TV program, and is currently prosecuting the National Football League for a similar restrictions of TV broadcasts...