Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight was scheduled to air revelations about the Federal Communications Commission, and massed advance leaks to the press had hinted at sensational stuff, including a "criminal felony." Also reminiscent of the McCarthy period was the doomsday rumble in the voice of Subcommittee Counsel Bernard Schwartz. By week's end intense, brilliant Lawyer Schwartz, 35, New York University Law School professor and author of seven published books on law, had proved to be the most unlovable congressional investigation counsel since Roy Cohn...
...investigate was whether Washington's "Big Six" regulatory commissions* had been operating autonomously, as Congress intended, without undue pressures from the White House or Capitol Hill. Such an investigation might well have been valuable and would have been welcomed by the commissions themselves. But Professor Schwartz applied for the counsel post, landed it, and bloodhounded an unscheduled investigation into the individual conduct of commission members...
...week's No. 1 witness was John Charles Doerfer, 53, a Wisconsin lawyer named to the FCC by President Eisenhower in 1953, and appointed chairman in mid-1957. Relentlessly, Schwartz piled up testimony and documents showing that Republican Doerfer had collected "honorariums" (not very lavish, usually $100) for speeches to various broadcasting-industry gatherings outside Washington. On these trips Doerfer traveled at Government expense, collecting $12 per diem allowances, although his hosts often paid his hotel bills. Most picked-over trip: a 1954 expedition during which Doerfer 1) took part in the dedication of a station KWTV tower...
...Frederic N. Schwartz, 51, was named president of Bristol-Myers Co. (Ipana, Bufferin, Vitalis), to succeed Lee H. Bristol, elected chairman of the board. The first nonmember of the Bristol or Myers families to occupy the presidency, Syracuse Graduate ('31) Schwartz did sales work for New England manufacturers of metal stampings and surgical instruments until 1942, went to Washington to serve with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He joined Bristol-Myers in 1945, in 1946 moved up from executive vice president to president of Bristol Laboratories, an ethical drug subsidiary...
...other, fails nonetheless to maintain the same level of quality in its own sphere. A few canvases stand out prominently. They are a still-life by Joseph Solman, a Provincetown vignette and still-life by Byron Browne and a still-life and "Judgement of Paris" by Manfred Schwartz...