Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church's Rector Harry Emerson Fosdick, he was born 54 years ago in Buffalo, graduated in 1905 from Princeton (to which university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant corporation counsel, later became Commissioner of Accounts. He first joined the Rockefellers as an investigator of European police systems. In 1916 Newton Diehl Baker sent him to the Mexican border, recalled him after U. S. entry into the World War to take charge of training camp activities. After the Armistice President Wilson...
...shot from the 7th tee hit an apple tree, it stuck in the crotch, 15 ft. from the ground. He conceded the hole. When Reynolds Smith's ball rolled into a hole made by one of Oregon's gophers, the United States Golf Association's general counsel searched his rule book, finally found a clause providing that a ball may be moved without penalty if it enters a hole made by a "burrowing animal " The U.S.G.A.'s President John U Jackson pronounced the galleries the biggest since Bobby Jones retired, complimented them for extraordinary good behavior...
...president, a Canadian named Harry Low, who promptly put himself in hot water by admitting that he had himself contracted to buy 45,000 shares of his company's stock at $1, a fact not mentioned in the registration statement. To the Commission's counsel, E. Forrest Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt...
...change in the public taste in decoration from sanitation to esthetics and (after Brother Samuel's death) Brother William 's espousal of vegetarianism put Childs on the skids. In 1929, after a grim fight for proxy control. Chairman Childs was forced out and General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign...
...National Association of Life Underwriters in Denver last week delegates generally agreed that this rhetorical question by Vice President Alexander E. Patterson of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. struck at the heart of insurance's chief current problem. Major tenet of modern life underwriting is counsel and service to the insured-no high-pressure methods such as some salesmen use to sell anybody anything for a commission. Appreciating that self-criticism in business is as healthy as it is unusual, the 1,500 delegates in Denver's Broadway Theatre voiced approval as Mr. Patterson went...