Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School program will be directed by Stanley S. Surrey professor of Law. Surrey has served as a member of the U. S. tax mission to Japan, and was recently special counsel to the congressional subcommittee investigating the internal revenue department...
Telephone Approval. Ellis Slack, ashen and restless, sat listening in the congressional committee room while Committee Counsel Robert Collier read from Judge Moore's deposition. One day last October, said the judge, he bumped into U.S. Attorney Watson, "who was then showing unmistakable signs of ill health, which resulted in his death two months later." Watson was anxious to tell him that Ellis Slack, on one of his visits to St. Louis, had ordered the "whitewash" grand jury report. Watson's story: the report was written in Watson's office and, before the grand jury presented...
Stevenson himself has been an "operator," albeit a somewhat low-pressure one: many of the "operators," including Mitchell, are strongly attracted to Stevenson and vice versa. During the war, Mitchell worked for Lend-Lease and the State Department. Last March, he was appointed chief counsel for the House Judiciary subcommittee investigating the Justice Department (the Chelf Committee) and has used his powers in a very adroit...
Behind the Scenes. As counsel for the Chelf Committee, Mitchell set out to do a major cleanup job on the Justice Department, but failed to make some of his cases stick. When the investigation began to fizzle, he used his authority as committee counsel (plus his friendship with Cardinal Stritch and Stevenson) as an effective political gun stuck into Attorney General McGranery's ribs. In this way, Mitchell has taken a hand in the running of the department, pushed through certain appointments. His behind-the-scenes operation raised the level of the department and protected his party; whether this...
...happened. During the sessions, both Feinsinger and the "public" members of WSB shied away from the union shop issue. But Feinsinger was under strong pressure to get a majority report and wind up the hearing. The labor members of the WSB knew this and, under the coaching of C.I.O. Counsel Arthur Goldberg, they withheld their support (siding with industry) until Feinsinger put his blessing on the union shop. When Feinsinger was asked at a press conference why the WSB stretched its authority to recommend the union shop, he blurted: "We were boxed in." Then he got around to a lawyer...