Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman, J. B. Wright '92; vice-chairman, W. K. Ginman; secretary-treasurer, P. R. Lincoln '23; counselor, Professor C. L. Dawes...
Apparently Nevada is not the only place where a divorce may be obtained expeditiously. I have just received "An open letter to lawyers and interested persons of the U. S.," from an Attorney and Counselor at Law, of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, entitled "How to obtain a divorce fastly and at low cost." According to this "open letter," one of the grounds of divorce in the State of Campeche, Mexico, is mutual consent. "In mutual consent cases, both parties may appear before the Court by power of attorney, without coming here. ... In non consent cases, provision for service to a conciliatory...
...four years (1908-12) that was considered a hilarious joke in official Washington society. Its reference was to Major Archibald Willingham Butt, military aide to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. More than a decorative figure, Major Butt was also political counselor, social manager, playmate and secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave...
...Hoover had searched the land over for a suitable person to head the Commission he expected to flex out the "inequalities and injustices" of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Scared of Senatorial inquisitions, men he wanted would not take the post. Finally he chose the suave, immaculate guide and counselor of his pre-inaugural South American tour...
...party, wrote to him anonymously, met him privately, offered him her love. This, says Amiel, was not unheard-of in his life. He had received "five or six" declarations, had never made any himself "Philine" and Amiel met often, became intimate, caressive. But he was always her spiritual counselor, moral guide, intellectual leader. A celibate to the age of 39, eventually he was persuaded to bed. He never, so far as the Journal admits, repeated the experience with "Philine" or anybody else. Said he: "For the first time I have received a woman's favors, and frankly, compared...