Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few thousand voters bothered to cast ballots in the Tennessee Republican primary. As their senatorial nominee they picked Ray H. Jenkins, counsel in the Army-McCarthy investigation. Jenkins insisted that he was not a candidate, but he neglected to have his name removed from the ballot. This week, with Jenkins still insisting, the Republican state committee prepared to name a replacement...
Said Joe: "Roy thinks he has resigned [as chief counsel for McCarthy's permanent investigating subcommittee], but I want to tell Roy Cohn he has not and cannot ever resign . . . I intend to draw on the knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss...
Handing circumloquacious Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins the job of boiling down the 2,000,000-word transcript of the Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief...
Time for Memoirs. Cohn's career as chief counsel ended at a subcommittee luncheon in the old Supreme Court chamber. Even before the steak and French fried potatoes were served, McCarthy announced Cohn's resignation. Later, he scowled at reporters over the dishes and rumbled that Cohn's departure was "a great victory for the Communists...
Glumly. Cohn returned to his Manhattan law practice, promised to do spare-time work for McCarthy's cause, and (at 27) dashed off his memoirs for the Hearst papers. McCarthy insisted that he would never be able to hire another counsel like Cohn. No one disputed him on that...