Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florence Umberhocker Bratten had served for 25 years as confidential secretary to Alben Barkley. A plump and jolly woman, she liked to boast that she had a first-name friend in every office in the Government. One of her friends was Charles E. ("Chuck") Shaver, counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. In the 1948 and 1950 campaigns, Shaver was Barkley's personal aide...
...friendship for Fleisher and had been paid nothing for their pains. But, just as quickly, Shaver turned in a terse resignation to the Senate Small Business Committee. It was accepted immediately. Flo flew back from a vacation at her Kentucky farm to face the preliminary inquiries of Counsel Francis Flanagan of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. She then had an hour-long interview with her boss, Alben Barkley...
...David Maxwell Fyfe, 51, a Scotsman who became one of Britain's famous barristers in his career, King's Counsel at 33. then Solicitor General and Attorney General -Home Secretary and also Minister for Welsh Affairs (a new post created by Churchill to appease Welsh nationalists). Fyfe was a prosecutor at the Niirnberg war crime trials, has a special interest in transport, industrial development, town & country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship...
...School's annual mock trial reaches the appellate stage tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in the Langdell Courtroom. Dean Griswold of the Law School will represent the plaintiff-appellant. Covington W. Hardee, professor of Law, will be counsel for the defendant...
After Congress created the Small Defense Plants Administration last July, President Truman had a hard time finding a man to run the new agency. Last month he snagged Telford Taylor, 43, an old New Deal friend of Truman's, who has made a notable record as general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission, as a G-2 brigadier general in World War II and, later, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. A Harvard Law School graduate ('32), Taylor left the Government in 1949, this year began his own Manhattan law practice...