Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Front War. Before and after Lewis' departure, the C.I.O. was in a three-front war: with the craft unions, with industry management and with the Communists. Lee Pressman became general counsel for the C.I.O., and other Communists rose to positions of great power. For a while, Communists and anti-Communists each thought they were using the other. Phil Murray at length decided to get rid of his Reds, but he was not fully successful until the Taft-Hartley Act (which he hated) came...
...former New Deal lawyer in Washington, he worked as a liaison agent between the U.N. and Senate committees investigating Communist activities among American personnel of the organization. However, a counsel for the McCarran Senate sub-committee conducting one probe said Feller himself was not under investigation...
Last week a 14th witness appeared under subpoena for what he called "this unpleasant ritual." He was ex-Communist Agent Whittaker Chambers. Had David Zablodowsky, a $14,600-a-year director of U.N. publications, been a member of the Soviet underground in the U.S.? the committee counsel asked. Yes, replied Chambers, Zablodowsky worked in an apparatus that procured forged passports and other papers for Russian agents...
Leighton, Watson, F. Skiddy von Stade '38, Dean of Freshmen, Livingston Hall. Vice-Dean of the Law School, and Eliot L. Richardson, counsel to the Corporation, questioned the original executive board of the Democratic Club yesterday morning, attempting to determine exactly what happened to the funds. Tobin, Currey, Club secretary Theodore L. Kessel man '54, and former vice-president George F. Baum, Jr. '55 attended the inquiry...
...Charles Oliphant, chief counsel of the BIR, resigned suddenly after a tax-troubled Chicagoan testified that Oliphant's name had been used by a racketeer in an attempted shakedown. Oliphant had admitted accepting gifts and expensive entertainment from big taxpayers with cases pending before the BIR. A close friend of Oliphant was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, who refuses to testify before congressional committees...