Word: coudert
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...legislative committee decided to tackle Communism first. It placed this phase of the investigation in the able hands of two eminent, conservative Republican lawyers - State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 42, and onetime New York City Corporation Counsel Paul Windels. Mr. Windels went to work in Brooklyn College, was warmly welcomed by its tall, tweedy president, Harry D. Gideonse (pronounced Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their...
Last week's public hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...
...week's end, not only dismissal but jail faced Dr. Selsam and 24 other members of the Teachers Union. Because they had refused, on advice of counsel, to testify at a private hearing before Senator Coudert, the legislative committee decided to cite them for contempt...
...Democrat Frederic Rene Coudert, New York attorney: "I do not believe in the theory of the indispensable individual . . . that theory . . . leads to dictatorship...
...Rising Chorus. The Chicago Tribune'?, New York correspondent, imperturbable William Fulton, collected an impressive bouquet of scallions thrown at isolationists by former Diplomat Nicholas Roosevelt; Right Rev. William Lawrence, Episcopal bishop emeritus of Massachusetts; Colonel John Stilwell, president, National Safety Council; Frederic R. Coudert, Lawrence Hunt, Henry Breckinridge, lawyers; Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, New York; Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan. Miss Morgan said dryly: "Americans must get away from that terrible word 'security...