Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July and September of 1955 the Internal Security subcommittee called her in for more questioning. With advice of counsel, Mary Knowles invoked the First Amendment, refused to answer such questions as: "Did you, or do you, know Herbert Philbrick?" on the further grounds that they pried into her private thoughts and were meant, not to elicit pertinent information, but only to humiliate her. Last fall Mary Knowles was indicted for contempt of Congress...
...majority of the committee later passed Sullivan's motion to photostat copies of the petition to be distributed to all school committee members. Shaplin requested that the group ask legal counsel to determine whether the move was within the law, but, agreeing with Fitzgerald that the committee could do what it wished with the petition, the majority defeated his proposal...
...Named Defense Department General Counsel Mansfield D. Sprague, 46, to the job of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve, succeeding Carter L. Burgess, who leaves the Administration to become president of Trans World Airlines...
...Republican minority members disagreed. "In a close reading of the hearings," they said, "we must come to the conclusion that the technical staff presented leading questions to a select group of witnesses . . . Persons with views not in accord with those of the counsel were not given full and fair opportunity to testify." However, added the Republicans, "the facts brought to light by this investigation seem to indicate that Negro leaders, and those actively interested in the advancement of the Negro people, have much work to do among the Negro people, and that all of the difficulties attendant upon integration...
House Cleaning. The stabilization loan announced last week came about after Bolivia, in despair, got the services of a U.S. consultant named George Jackson Eder, legal counsel for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and an old Latin American hand. The sum, equal at the present 10,000-to-$1 boliviano rate to nearly double the value of the 140 billion bolivianos now in circulation, should be enough, if carefully fed into the dollar market, to roll the boliviano well back. The experts guess that the boliviano's realistic rate will turn...