Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: For 18 months, between Harvard and Northwestern, worked as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. After graduation from Northwestern, entered law practice in Chicago. In 1933 he went to Washington as special counsel to the administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. Returned to law practice in Chicago in 1935, went back to Washington in 1941 to be special assistant to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, a Republican. Later served as a special assistant to two Secretaries of State, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Handled press relations...
...wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. To remedy the situation, a radio-company official suggested that candidates limit their speeches to one section of the country at a time, beaming industrial talks to eastern cities, farm speeches to farm areas, etc. Then he offered this additional counsel: "If the campaign managers will take the advice of those of us who have studied the problems of broadcasting, they will not attempt to put on the air long-winded political speeches . . . The ordinary political speech . . . will not go at all with radio audiences. They will tune out in the middle...
Loaded for Bear. The McCarran committee, unlike the Tydings committee, which preceded it and which seemed more interested in belittling subversion than in pinning it down, was loaded for bear. But McCarran's counsel, Robert Morris, rigorously avoided star-chamber or headline-hunting procedures, sifted evidence for fairness in secret executive sessions...
...side of the credentials fight is being managed by New York Lawyer Herbert Brownell, a Dewey man who was the Dewey-Warren campaign manager in 1948. Working with Brownell is a staff of six lawyers, headed by William Pierce Rogers, onetime counsel for the Senate Investigations Committee (among his cases: the five-percenters). Part of their assignment: to get their best witnesses before television cameras, as well as before the committee, so that the U.S. public would get the full impact of their case...
...what outraged Gina's counsel most was that Writer de Boccard, in referring to Gina's bosom, repeatedly used the word zinna, which is "vulgar language of the tavern, its precise meaning referring to the udder of a quadruped." This was "an attack on the reputation and honor of the actress, the woman and wife . . . because it violated all Italian tradition that calls for special respect to a woman, especially to a married woman." Furthermore, read the charge, this was "generic and specific defamation...