Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moderator Richard H. Field '26 was general counsel for O.P.A...
...handed out some advice: "Take all the time you want until you're 30, to learn about what you are going to do from the time you are 30 to 50, so you can do what you want to do after you're 50." The follow-through to this counsel has been near letter-perfect. Comfortably settled since 1942 in the top job at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean David staggered his career with eight years of teaching and learning at the School and fifteen subsequent years of fortune-accumulating in Manhattan financial circles...
After they had been pronounced man & wife, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip heard the wise and holy counsel of the venerable Archbishop of York. His words reached beyond Westminster Abbey to the whole world. Said...
Hair-Shirt Heir. War Assets Administrator Robert M. Littlejohn, whose regular offers to resign have been regularly rejected by President Truman, could no longer complain that "nobody wants to wear my hair shirt." The President finally accepted his resignation after getting Jess Larson, 42, until recently general counsel for the agency, to take over when Littlejohn leaves this week. Swarthy, affable Jess Larson, ex-mayor of Chickasha, Okla., and a colonel in World War II, is expected to strengthen at least one major weakness in the Littlejohn regime-a chronic friction with Congress...
Soul & Body. High point of The Apostolic Fathers is the "Letter to Diognetus." Written in the form of a letter to a pagan to describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom...