Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships a year, did $40 million worth of business on the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes between 1947 and 1952. Jarka's president, Frank W. Nolan, admitted that Jarka paid out nearly half a million dollars in petty-cash "gratuities" in the last five years. Committee Counsel Theodore Kiendl prodded Nolan into an admission: Jarka paid off not only labor racketeers but agents and executives of shipping companies to get their unloading business. E.g., a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Lines got $2,500 a year for three years, the local manager of the Holland-America Line...
...fact," asked Counsel Kiendl, "that you paid these moneys for the purpose of avoiding the possibility of ... flash strikes?" Replied Kennedy: "I say I gave him the money. If it prevented strikes, then that's what it done, but I didn't actually pay to prevent strikes." Kiendl: "Your motive was to pay the money and hope that it would keep you out of trouble?" Kennedy...
...Special Counsel: Thomas Stephens, 49, slight, Irish-born corporation lawyer, for many years a Republican worker in Manhattan and a close friend of Herb Brownell. His duties are still unspecified...
...Deputy Attorney General: William P. Rogers, 39, New York and Washington lawyer and wartime Navy lieut. commander, who began his career as a prosecutor under Tom Dewey, then New York County district attorney. Appointed counsel to the Senate's War Investigating Committee (once headed by Harry Truman) during the Republican 80th Congress, Rogers earned such a reputation for fairness and competence that the Democrats kept him on after they won back control of Congress in 1948. His first political job: helping his boss-to-be, Herb Brownell, present the Eisenhower case on the contested Southern delegations at the Chicago...
...Rhode Island's onetime Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich (1841-1915), young Winthrop started out to follow a lawyer's career, graduated tenth in his class at Harvard Law School. After a sister married John D. Rockefeller Jr., he veered off toward banking. In 1922 he became chief counsel to the old Equitable Trust; by 1933 he was running Chase National, the "Rockefeller Bank," with headquarters in downtown Manhattan...