Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personally obtained a brief delay in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Dixon-Yates hearing in June, when the House was about to vote on Dixon-Yates transmission lines. The Administration explanation was that Adams, no lawyer, had wanted advice from Attorney General Brownell and White House Special Counsel Gerald Morgan about legal problems relating to the SEC hearings. Since Brownell and Morgan were away from Washington at the time, Adams requested that the hearings be put off until he could confer with them...
...Trans World Airlines since 1947, Pierson has been an effective advocate of lower tariffs and reciprocal trade as head of the ICC's United States Council. He was a World War I artillery lieutenant in France, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922, served the Government as RFC counsel (1933)) president of the Export-Import Bank (1936-44), and U.S. delegate to the 1951-52 conference on Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. As 17th (and fifth American) president of the ICC, Internationalist Pierson will push for economic integration of Western Europe...
William Lee Sims II, 58, was elected president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 49, who resigned (TIME, May 16) and joined Reynolds Metals Co. as general counsel and director. Alabama-born, Sims went to work for Colgate as a salesman in 1924, started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president...
OTTO G. J. SCHALER Public Relations Counsel for the Embassy of Liberia Washington...
...York Municipal Judge Robert Morris, onetime chief counsel to the Senate subcommittee, advised him to testify, and helped to make the arrangements. CBS wanted Burdett to resign first, but Morris persuaded the network officials that recanting Communists should be encouraged rather than penalized for making public confessions. Last week both CBS and the subcommittee extravagantly praised Burdett's "strong sense of duty...