Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive toward emancipation that Aisha had launched was not to be denied. Letters from Moroccan and other Moslem feminists poured in on her; so did delegations of well-wishers and counsel seekers. She larded her speeches and pronouncements with action-some of it high, heady and maverick for a royal princess. She drove her own car, rode horses, bareheaded and astride, showed up frequently at the public beach in Rabat for a plunge in the surf. Aisha became a national heroine just by existing...
Edward T. Wilcox, at present Associate Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, has been appointed as the new Director...
Baker's stature, like the stature of great Harvard professors of the past and present, results not from the material he dispensed from the lecturn, but from a personality which was reflected in the work of each young man who came to him for counsel...
...through Colgate, took his law at Cornell, became at 23 a member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked the door to the Truman Administration scandals. He also...
...hearty, old-style railroader, Kiley went to work full time for the Milwaukee after graduating as a civil engineer in 1914, bulled his way up as everything from rodman on a survey team to auditor of accounts before becoming president in 1950. His probable successor: Vice President and General Counsel William John Quinn, 46, a former FBI man who went to Milwaukee in 1954 after climbing to vice president and general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. One of Quinn's principal jobs will be to cut costs on the Milwaukee, get the line...