Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer, businessman, financier; after a two-year illness; in Boston. Lawyer Perkins, graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1894, became in 1906 the youngest Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. During the World War he was assistant Secretary of War in charge of organizing tue munitions industry, was chief counsel to the War Industries Board. Lawyer Perkins' speech was slangy. At a meeting of the Corporation, the late President Eliot once requested: "Will someone kindly translate Mr. Perkins' remarks into English so that I may understand them...
...Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, the modest neighborhood of Barnaby is inhabited by citizens whose salaries mostly range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Nonetheless, the substantial red-brick house at 3122 Tennyson N. W., home of R.F.C. Counsel Claude E. Hamilton Jr., with its green shuttered windows and cement walk much like its neighbors, was one evening last week the scene of history in the making. A Diamond Taxi drove up to 3122 Tennyson, and stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With...
...interested in prices as such. . . . We want a free market, and prices will always go up & down in a free market, depending upon the health of particular companies and employment and so on. We don't want to interfere with that; we are not investment counsel . . . nor can we save a fool from his folly...
During the Great War he was a member of the Priorities Commission and Chief Counsel of the War Industries Board, a member of the American Commission to the Inter-Allied War Conference in Paris, Assistant to the Secretary of War, and Assistant Director of Munitions...
...What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of love in ancient plenilune, Glory and stars beneath his feet- A sage that is but kith and kin With the comedian Capuchin...