Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurgood Marshall, Special Counsel to the N.A.A.C.P., last night called upon President Eisenhower to put his full weight behind a strong Congressional civil rights program. "The actions of Congress are not his fault, but I do blame him for not speaking out," he said...
Certainly individuals and groups have the right to say what they please and no one can object to this. No one questions the right and obligation of religious leaders to counsel their congregations, but it is an abridgement of a fundamental freedom (as well as a misuse of their position) to attempt to enforce their opinions on the nation as a whole. Msgr. Thomas E. Little, Chairman of the Catholic Legion of Decency declared, for example, that he felt most Protestants and Jews should concur with the Legion's guidance in encouraging "better" motion pictures and discouraging "morally undesirable" ones...
...quiet and unobtrusive was Justice Reed that it took his request for retirement last week, at the age of 72, to win him headlines and a measure of public recognition. A small-town Kentucky lawyer. Reed served Herbert Hoover as counsel for the Federal Farm Board (1929-32) and the RFC (1932-35). As Franklin Roosevelt's Solicitor General (1935-38), he studiously defended such New Deal staples as NRA (he lost the case) and the Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (he won) before the Supreme Court. Once, in a rare dramatic moment, he collapsed from exhaustion...
Herter was one of a panel arranged by Thomas E. Crookes '49, head of Student Placement. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, moderated the panel consisting of John Rhome, partner of Hutchins & Wheeler, Boston; Wright Tisdale, Assistant General Counsel of Ford Motor Company; and Herter, partner of Bingham, Dana & Gould...
...closest advisers. Hurnphrey sees the President frequently, talks to him more frequently by telephone. Ike likes Humphrey's blunt honesty and his ability to make decisions in any field. When Secretary Dulles was stricken in the midst of the Suez crisis, the President instinctively turned to Humphrey for counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through the Cabinet. After the President's heart attack, Cabinet officers gravitated to the Treasury Secretary's office, there discussed ways and means of carrying on in the Chief's absence. As the Treasury's watchdog, Humphrey...