Word: counsellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...donor, who was born in Antigua, was the son of a merchant of great wealth, who, having purchased extensive estates in New England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment was not in unison with the patriotic spirit of the times. After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators...
...From his youth", says Mr. H. A. Dobson, "the moralist had moralized; from his youth--nay from his childhood--this letter-writer had written letters, from his youth this supreme delineator of the other sex had been the confidant and counsellor of women. In his boyhood he was secretary-general to all the lovesick girls of his neighborhood; at of even he addressed a hortatory epistle, stuffed with tests to a scandalizing widow; and whenever it was possible, to correspond with any one, he was as 'corresponding' as even Horace Walpole could have desired...
Lately, Public Relations Counsellor Edward L. Bernays* of Manhattan made a definition which Editor and Publisher hastened to reprint with the grateful title, "Now We Know." Mr. Bernays declared: "The public relations counsel carries forward to a logical development, along broader and more constructive lines, the work of the 'publicity...
...went on a cruise aboard the Mayflower with many-lensed news photographers as his guests-and Melville E. Stone, onetime (1893-1921) General Manager, now Counsellor of the Associated Press, as guest of honor. The cruise extended up the Fore River to the Fore River Shipyards of the Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation. There he looked up at the giant unfinished hulk of the Lexington, the Navy's giant, speedy airplane carrier-to-be. There he was saluted by Captain Felipe Fleiss of the Argentine Navy, Commander of the battleship Rivadavia which (with the Moreno) is being converted from...
Orders of Chivalry: Sir William Tyrrell, permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office; Baron Desborough, international sport; Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum; J. A. M. Elder, Australian Commissioner to the U. S.; John J. Broderick, commercial counsellor of the British Embassy at Washington...