Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter to a Philadelphia woman who named her baby girl Nira, chuckled over the discovery of a town called Nira (pop. 20) in Iowa. ¶ Another career diplomat was promoted last week when President Roosevelt appointed Arthur Bliss Lane, now counselor of embassy at Mexico City, to be Minister to Nicaragua...
...brothers will testify that "Rufe" has shown those same qualities ever since. Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers. He cannot remember off-hand how many utilities companies he has headed. He was economic adviser to the U. S. experts who drafted his brother's "Dawes Plan," assistant to Owen D. Young when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair...
...Stuart, white-haired president of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Insuil bankers, insisted that most of his firm's profits from Insuil deals were on paper, that the final collapse had washed most of them away. The Senators were curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never recommended specific...
...raced to Halifax last week were Simon F. Reibin, Peter Verigin's personal secretary, and Peter C. Makaroff, counselor to the Doukhobors, first of the sect ever to attend a university or become a lawyer. In Boston they were joined by the Doukhobors' Vice President, Joseph P. Shukin, who had also hastened across the continent. They wished to see Peter Verigin II before he went back to Russia to learn about secret Doukhobor affairs from him, get from his lips a last message for his people...
Rosso. Arriving in Manhattan last fortnight, he began a voluble interview with: "I consider myself an old American. . . ." His diplomatic service in Washington dates back to 1910. After the War, in which he served as a cavalry officer, he returned as counselor of embassy. In 1925 he went home but popped over again in 1931 with Foreign Minister Dino...