Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a welter of words and widely diverging counsel, how can the thoughtful citizen develop for himself sensible decisions on current issues...
Last week it developed that a good deal depended on whose morality was involved. Republican Wolverton began expounding his ethical ideas to Witness Paul Porter, chairman of the FCC during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, now counsel for a losing applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
...cases, depend on examiners to brief them and justify their decisions. Many commission officials have little knowledge of how to conduct a hearing on industry's problems. At a recent CAB hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage of the commissioners' presence to draw...
...Saunders, 48, executive vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway Co., became president, succeeding retiring Robert H. Smith, 69. After graduating from Roanoke College ('30) and Harvard Law School ('34), Saunders practiced law in Washington, joined N. & W.'s legal department in 1939, moved up to general counsel...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 32, tenacious, windy-haired chief counsel for the McClellan committee, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 28: their sixth child, fourth son; in Washington. Name: Michael. Weight...