Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pardon this wail. I am indifferent whether you publish it now that I feel better for having said a word, probably crudely, in behalf of Curtis, one of your early subscribers who always boosts TIME and who introduced me to its delightful pages, who has since been promoted to Counselor of Embassy at Habana. DANIEL ROBERTS...
Career. Baron von Maltzan began his diplomatic career in Rio de Janeiro. He soon won promotion and he was transferred to the embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma...
...Weakest Link." Ill in Yonkers, N. Y., unable to attend, Samuel Untermyer, fiery Manhattan counselor, wrote a letter for President Whitman to read aloud. ". . . The administration of justice, which...
Died. Judson Harmon, 81, elder counselor of the Democratic Party in Ohio, onetime (1895-97) U. S. Attorney General, twice (1909-11 and 1911-13) Governor of Ohio, 1904 and 1912 Presidential possibility; in Cincinnati; from uremic poisoning, after a brief illness. Starting as a lawyer, he enjoyed a versatile, meteoric career of public service. As judge of the Ohio Superior Court, he was succeeded in 1887 by William H. Taft. While governor of Ohio he consistently exposed political graft, regardless of party affiliations, and was re-elected with a plurality of 100,000 his second term, defeating Warren...
Aftermath. The national sorrow exceeded all ordinary bounds. Black flags were unfurled spontaneously everywhere. King Alexander came and stood as though dazed at the bedside of his dead counselor. Tears streamed from His Majesty's eyes. When he finally left the room he returned a moment later to clasp the dead statesman's hand...