Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Parks Director J. W. Brinson Jr. were questioned about an apparent $4,650 overcharge on the state purchase of gardening machinery. Jones got to Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould expressed the opinion that the Commonwealth had pre-empted the right to control the machines, so that it would be futile for the city to pass legislation against them. But DeGuglielmo's proposed order only advises the Cambridge Licensing Commission that the Council feels the machines should be banned...
After nearly a month had passed and no word on the matter came from the Solicitor's office, DeGuglielmo introduced another order stating "that it is the considered policy of the City Council" that the use of coin-operated machines (except vending machines and juke boxes) be prohibited...
According to Langer, "the Harvard contingent in OSS was a very powerful one;" included in that group were mostly History Department people, but here and there a professor of something else was accepted. Such a man is Milton Katz, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law. After a period as Solicitor for the War Production Board and U.S. Executive Officer of the Combined Production and Resources Board (U.S. Britain-Canada)-- work which involved planning industrial mobilization for war--Katz in 1943 joined the Navy and was assigned to OSS duty in the Mediterranean and Western European Theatres...
...proposal was submitted by Cambridge's assistant City Solicitor, J. Henry Smith. At the hearing it was supported by Alan McClennen '38, the City's Planning Director, who stated that "We find ourselves in the situation where no city or town has a right to determine that major educational institutions...are unsuited to certain neighborhoods...