Word: sealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next came "Banking, Group and Branch," a 10,000-word survey, without illustrations, of the prime contemporary problem in U. S. finance. To Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, this article had been submitted before publication. Of it, beneath the Treasury's seal, he had written: ". . . interesting and comprehensive. . . . It is appropriate that the first issue of this new magazine of business should devote so much space to a study of this important question...
...painting of Williams is an unsigned likeness of him made when he was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under James I and Charles I. Williams was the last ecclesiastical personage who held the Great Seal, which was entrusted to him in 1616, when he was dean of Westminster; in 1625, when he was deprived of the former office, he had become Archbishop of York. He was the successor of Francis Bacon as Keeper of the Seal. Williams was not a lawyer, and his appointment was much criticised, but no charges were brought against him in connection with his proceedings...