Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought to "trial" suddenly, only seven days before they were released. They were accused of "having intruded into the territorial air of China ... to perpetrate harassing and provocative activities, thereby jeopardizing the security of the People's Republic of China." The indictment was read, and then a "defense counsel," after expressing his anger at the "horrible crimes" that were committed, pleaded for leniency. At this point in their story, the flyers became cautious, obviously protecting themselves and other Americans still held by the Communists...
...Oregon in 1915, served as a sergeant in World War I. In 1919 he hung out his shingle in Great Falls, Mont., representing among others Montana Power, Great Northern Railway, Anaconda. He joined Anaconda's legal department full time in 1943, and within eight years was general counsel and a vice president. Recently, Glover skillfully helped resolve thorny difficulties over taxes and exchange rates with Chile, where Anaconda mines Chuquicamata, the world's greatest single copper ore body, winning considerable financial relief for the company, and Chile's Order of Merit for himself. By company rule, Glover...
James D. St. Clair, assistant counsel for the Army Department during last spring's Army-McCarthy hearings, has been appointed special trial lawyer for Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, by Furry's attorney, Gerald A. Berlin...
Berlin had said that he might appoint a special trial counsel when Furry was indicted in December. The possibility was also mentioned in a January fund-raising letter to the University faculties. Berlin postponed hiring an assistant, however, until the "all-out" fight over Furry's indictment ended...
...Clair graduated from the Law School in 1947. He assisted Army Department counsel Joseph N. Welch throughout the three-month public airing of the Army's dispute with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy...