Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union of Italian Catholic Jurists. The association of judges, lawyers and law professors had just closed its tenth annual convention with earnest discussions on the convention theme: freedom of the press. Now the delegates, having kept an open mind on the subject-no resolutions were passed-sought the counsel of Pope John XXIII. "It is on this problem, so basic in modern society," said Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni, who led the delegates in, "that we have come together here to listen with filial devotion to the words of the Holy Father...
...footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City's far left PM (renamed the New York Star) for a year (1948) until it folded. As a Republican, he managed Wendell Willkie's 1940 campaign in the West, but since then supported every Democratic presidential nominee...
...This man has the sympathy of the State of Arkansas and the sunny South," said the defense co-counsel, gesturing toward Segregationist E. A. Lauderdale Sr., 48, charged with masterminding the Labor Day bombings of Little Rock's school board offices, the mayor's business office and the fire chief's city-owned station wagon (TIME, Sept. 21). "Don't let New York or Chicago or TIME Magazine tell you what to do in this case," cried the attorney before the all-white jury...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
Keeping the heat on management, Steelworkers General Counsel Arthur J. Goldberg last week sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Frederick H. Mueller, urging that the Government stockpile steel now coming from the mills as a hedge against resumption of the strike. "While I have not abandoned hope that a settlement will be reached before the 80-day injunction expires, nevertheless I must advise you in all candor that at the present writing no settlement is in prospect...