Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salute to Eisenhower" dinner in Washington last month, the President of the U.S. wondered publicly whether he should run for a second term, and indicated that he yearned for counsel. Said he: "I could devoutly wish that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer." Undeterred by the "but," Pollster George Gallup saw his own duty, and set out to satisfy the President's yearning...
Committee Counsel Charles W. Steadman bored in on cross-examination while the Senators on the committee watched approvingly. Asked Steadman: "Do you claim anything illegal was done?" Murmured Case: "I don't know. I'm not an attorney." Snapped Steadman: "You are the only one who can tell us whether you feel there was an improper attempt to influence your vote." Replied Case, shrilly: "I do not know . . . All I know is that it was left by a man who was interested in the gas bill." Said Steadman: "You don't know the answers...
...giving the money to Neff. Said he: "I told him, when you deliver it, make it very clear this money is the money of an individual . . . and there are no strings attached to it." Would Patman have given Neff the money if Case were opposed to the bill? asked Counsel Steadman. Patman hedged, then said: "As far as I'm personally concerned, the answer would have been...
Before the week's exchange of views was finished, California Negroes were shifting from Stevenson to Kefauver in noticeable numbers. Said Franklin H. Williams, West Coast counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "Stevenson uses high-sounding phrases, but they lack content." In Manhattan the New York Post, long a devout supporter of Stevenson, cried in a full-page editorial that his utterances on the discrimination issue had been "inadequate . . . fragmentary and uninspired." At Miami Beach, where the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken...
...Lane was appointed Executive Director and General Counsel to the N.Y. Waterfront Commission. At present, he is a partner in the New York firm of Casey, Lane, and Mittendorf...