Word: counsel
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State and city legal counsel at that time advised that the area in question was under the sole control of the Metropolitan District Commision, even though privately owned and actually included on the Cambridge assessors' map. And opposition in a State House hearing effectively put an end to a bill which would take the property out of MDC control...
...does with all young Democratic Congressmen, Rayburn took Mills in hand early, gave fatherly advice and counsel. "Don't try to go too fast," he says. "Learn your job." Or: "Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about." Or still again: "If you want to get along, go along." By that he does not mean blindly sticking to the party line. He does mean living by the manners and morals...
Frugally, quietly, and keeping her own counsel, Mary Clarke lived the uneventful life of a New England spinster. In 1947 she made her will, and in 1950, at 90, she died. Last week, surprised Smith College officials had good reason to wonder what sort of woman she had been. Spinster Clarke had seen no need to bother the college at the time, but in her will she directed that some $200,000 be held and invested by a Rhode Island bank until it grew to $400,000, then given to Smith. By last week, when Smith got the belated news...
...stabilization) are shown as they clashed with Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, a Cornell professor named George Warren, and, eventually, FDR (the forces of inflation). And there are even more squabbles, sometimes petty, sometimes vital: between Cordell Hull and Raymond Moley at the London Economic Conferences; between Jerome Frank, general counsel and an early casualty of AAA, against George Peek (a representative "of the older generation" in the battle for farm equality); and, in the most dominant fight of them all, between the two Franklin Roosevelts...
Counteroffer. Convinced that this was too little, Reynolds sent its General Counsel Joseph H. McConnell, onetime NBC and Colgate-Palmolive president, to London to work out a better counteroffer. McConnell got together with Tube, a moneymaker with interests ranging from bicycles to nucleonics, agreed to set up a new company to buy Aluminium. Tube would hold a 51% interest, so keep the new company nominally British; Reynolds would hold the other 49%. Tube-Reynolds asked Lord Portal to hold up the Alcoa deal, promised to pay his shareholders an "attractive" price, even promised to retain the Portal management...