Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After months of speculation, Democrat Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture under Harry Truman, and now general counsel of the National Farmers Union, announced in Denver last week that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat held for the past 14 years by Colorado Republican Eugene Millikin. Confined to a wheelchair by arthritis and complications. Millikin, 65, has announced that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene...
...Trebilcock had never ventured, via the World, into a financial career. After working up to business editor, he quit to study mining law, later hung his shingle over a tent at Red Lake camp in Ontario's 1925 gold rush. On his return to Toronto, Trebilcock was appointed counsel to the old Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Canada's key mining market; in 1934 he worked out a merger with its rival, the 104-year-old Toronto Stock Exchange. The concentration of trading power soon pushed Toronto ahead of Montreal, which had traditionally been Canada's financial...
...expected," Eliot wrote, "that if a profitable and pleasant relation were established during the freshman year between the adviser and the advised, the relation would be maintained during the later College year; but the primary function of the adviser was no give counsel and encouragement to the newcomer, bewildered perhaps by the sudden freedom of College life, the multiplicity of fresh interests, and the complexity of his first problem--the wise selection of studies...
...beyond six meals on the Union per year per advisee. Many freshmen seem to feel that the Union is a good place to meet their adviser, but it is natural for the adviser to be hesitant. As Edward T. Wilcox, adviser and associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, says, "I never eat with my advisees unless they ask me to. The last thing we want is to have lots of eager advisers rushing around the Union to find freshmen. I go and sit by myself and see if any freshmen will come over." Actually, the person the freshmen...
...Harriman. For weeks Frank McKinney, the Indianapolis banker once described by Truman as "the best national chairman the Democratic Party ever had," has been working for Harriman. Other former Truman associates, e.g., Wisconsin's Democratic Chairman Philleo Nash (a White House aide in 1945-52) and Farmers Union Counsel Charles Brannan (Secretary of Agriculture 1948-52), are privately for Harriman...