Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistants to the Attorney General: WARREN OLNEY III, 48, a University of California law graduate and longtime associate of Governor Earl Warren, who picked him for chief counsel of the state's Special Crime Study Commission...
Queen's Counsel. The Kenya government relies on British regulars, Kenya home guards and Wandorobe savages (who get ?10 per Mau Mau head) to stamp out the terror. So far 13,000 Kikuyus have been rounded up as Mau Mau suspects; several dozen have been killed and four hanged. Yet few white settlers believe the Mau Mau can be crushed until Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the bearded Kikuyu whom the government accuses of masterminding the terrorists, is safely locked away...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawyers turned scornfully on segregation in the nation's capital. "There is no place for a segregated school system in the capital of the free world," said Counsel James M. Nabrit Jr. Attorney George Hayes argued that segregation, imposed by the District's board of education, deprives Negroes "of their liberty and property without due process of law," a violation of the Fifth Amendment...
...District's lawyers had a strange rebuttal. Congress established Washington's separate Negro schools in 1862 to "elevate" the ex-slaves, said Assistant Corporation Counsel Milton Korman. Washington Negroes have never had nonsegregated education, hence "they haven't enjoyed any right that has been taken away from them." Congress had repeatedly voted funds for separate schools and even for an assistant superintendent for Negro schools, so it has accepted segregation in fact, he said...
...work, but he netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with organized pilferage. Asked Counsel Kiendl: "Were there ten tons of steel stolen from that pier?" Replied Devlin: "That was the most remarkable case of pilferage...