Word: solicitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the time Senator Brookhart was describing the painful poverty of Iowa farmers, Publisher Pierce sent a solicitor to Chicago and New York to renew advertising contracts. " Ah," said the advertisers, " if the farmers of Iowa are broke, it will not pay to advertise in your paper!" Senator Brookhart, reported as strong as ever, is up for re-election next year, but Publisher Pierce is said to be not so enthusiastic...
...born in Paris and was educated in English schools. His father was a solicitor. He attended Heidelberg, and took his degree in medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth. His plays have been produced with varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow...
James M. Beck of Washington, Solicitor General...
Married. William Rose Benet, poet, one of the editors of The Literary Review (New York) to Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, poet, author of Black Armour. Daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, Solicitor General under President Taft, she married in 1906 Philip S. Hichborn, lawyer and writer. After his death she married, in 1916,. Horace Wylie, whom she divorced last Spring, charging nonsupport...
...outstanding addresses were undoubtedly those of President Cromwell of the Stock Exchange and James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor General, the former a fighting speech against political meddling with business, the latter a solemn warning of the evil tendencies in politics and government today. A Baltimore banker was simultaneously cheered and hissed for a smashing attack on the Volstead Act; the connection of this subject with the business of banking was not made clear...