Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stassen's mistake was in ignoring his own department and Congress when he decided to shift the extra funds. Bewildered Foreign Operation Administration officials wondered if Stassen thought their counsel was unneeded. An even greater failure was the lack of cooperation with Congress. Here it is not just a question of hurt feelings; Congressional approval is required before military funds are transferred to Columbo plan members...
...reared as an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat. He began practicing law in Jamestown, N.Y., after taking a two-year Albany Law School course in one year. His first clients were union men arrested in a violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before a backwoods justice of the peace, and the defense of a Communist arrested for selling...
...Million Credo. Franklin Roosevelt had an eye for such promising young men; Jackson was brought to Washington as counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He landed right in the middle of a tremendously complicated tax suit against former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Cried Jackson, during the trial: "It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200 million can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it." Mellon's estate was forced to pay $700,000 in back taxes-and Bob Jackson took a big step upward in the New Deal hierarchy...
...father suffered a crippling injury. Soon Pat was carrying Blackstone in his saddlebags while riding out to herd sheep. In 1905 he was admitted to the practice of law; within ten years he was chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, and in 1920 he achieved national attention as counsel for Mary Pickford in her divorce action against Owen Moore (Mary got the divorce, and Pat ended up with her Nevada ranch...
James St. Clair, assistant to counsel Joseph N. Welch in last spring's Army- McCarthy hearings, will address the Young Democratic Club...