Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
...cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary times, retorted that his firm casts first-rate bells, that Mr. Rockefeller alone was agitating for a reduced tariff on carillons...
...goal of the conference is largely patterned after Canada's United Church which has welded Canadian Methodists, Congregationalists and most Presbyterians and hopes to include Anglicans, Baptists. Of this union, Gershom W. Mason, general counsel for Canada's United Church last week said: "[Its benefits are] a feeling of freedom to restate and interpret the doctrine of the church from time to time in the light of present day conditions, an enriched sense of fellowship, an increase of 40% in donations to the church over the aggregate amounts before the union, and the great economic savings and spiritual...
With characteristic independence, President Hoover will pick Dr. Work's successor. Possibilities: Secretary of War James William Good; Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee; National Committee Vice-chairman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon; National Committee Secretary Franklin William Fort of New Jersey; National Committee General Counsel James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...