Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confirmation hearing on the qualifications of Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Secretary of Commerce turned out last week to be an undisguised inquisition. To begin with, the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took an unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks on a presidential Cabinet appointee in the nation...
...usurping authority. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott remarked that Hill's statement was "extremely well prepared." Did he get any help in preparing it from "anyone connected with the Senate or with any Senate Staff member?" An uneasy silence fell. Then the committee's Special Counsel Kenneth Cox, a Seattle lawyer, spoke up: "The witness discussed several matters with me, Senator Scott...
Unhidden Persuaders. With such gossipy asides, Mahdawi had little time to waste on hearing the defense. The court-appointed defense counsel, a woman named Rasima Zainab, spoke less than 15 minutes for all of her 17 clients. She hailed Colonel Mahdawi as "a symbol of justice." Before the verdict was announced, Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped...
Racket Ruckus. Every member of Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee is fervently against labor rackets, but some members are beginning to raise a private eyebrow at the way Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, 32, runs the show. "The Senators," says a Republican member of the committee, "don't have the slightest idea who is to be called, but we can read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators...
Cried Ohio's A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive board: "The principal effect of this bill is delivered against honest and legitimate trade unionism." Added A.F.L.-C.I.O. Special Counsel Arthur Goldberg in a hot opinion to state labor leaders: "It is plainly an anti-labor bill." Replied DiSalle with equal heat: Such labor leaders as the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck have gone "a long ways toward destroying what we fought...