Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known, plus the additional fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his associates were inclined to sell their American Linseed stock. There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel. The talk was brief-a new corporation, Gold Dust American Corp., would be formed and for its stock the Rockefellers would exchange their American Linseed preferred stock. Minority preferred holders and the commonholders would have opportunity to trade their shares for the new company's stock. American Linseed (worth...
...going to have. . . . GOLF, Yes Sir! LUNCHEONS, EXHIBITS, PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT-While it is not possible and would not be good form for the executive secretary to mention any of these affairs specifically, he is informed and believes 'on advice of counsel,' that he should state that there are some very remarkable dinners, breakfasts and suppers planned, not to mention other most desirable features...
...vice-presidency in the National Bank of the Republic and the executive vice-presidency of the National Republic Co. due to the publicity attendant upon his wife's divorce suit. "She's always spent beyond his means and now she's ruined him," said the attorney. "Absurd," said counsel for the lady. "Now that he has $30,000 a year, he wants to throw her aside." This was a tangle too naughty to untie. Judge Sabath ordered the banker to give his wife $250 right away and said he would listen to further details later...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin betook his homespun, sterling self to Manchester, last week, and spoke words of chastening counsel. Addressing a potent luncheon group of Lancashire cotton tycoons he pointedly intimated that the capital structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often does, Mr. Baldwin took his text from the iron & steel industry which is the basis of his family fortune, and spoke with a certain rugged candor thus: "I am going with my own trade, the steel trade, through deep waters. Most of what I had was in that industry...
Chester Welde Cuthell, chairman of the Air Law Committee of the American Bar Association, counsel for several aeronautical firms...