Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney and Counselor at Law Reno...
Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...
...civil servant secretary told him he would have to write and ask the U. S. Embassy to nominate these guests officially and in so doing assume responsibility for their behavior and character. This note the Minister of the Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told of the doctrine that "His Majesty's Government do not wish to be asked" such favors. They could be asked, but the Embassy must not risk a snub, and consequently could not act In these circumstances the U. S. Ambassador wrote back to the British Foreign Secretary...
...liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended...
Genesis of the Herex fashion column was a job taken some three years ago by handsome Mrs. McLaughlin as style counselor to the Formfit Co. (corsets). In charge of the Formfit account for the L. D. Wertheimer Advertising Agency was an executive who thought Mrs. McLaughlin had greater commercial possibilities than the Formfit job brought forth. Soon Adman George Enzinger had Mrs. McLaughlin running a retail hat shop on Chicago's smart Near North Side. When the hat shop was abandoned, Mrs. McLaughlin went into the wholesale millinery trade. As designer and working boss of Irene Castle...