Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party, never had stood for election to any office and was primarily a professor of economics and an expert in central banking (TIME, April 8, 1935). Professor van Zeeland was brought in as a compromise coalition Premier chiefly because King Albert had repeatedly brought him in as an economic counselor whose services previous Belgian Cabinets had found effective, disinterested. Under his expert management as Premier the devaluation of the belga-made inevitable by the devaluation of the currencies of the Great Powers -was carried through with skill and success in sharp contrast to the awful bungling at Paris...
...touring the Spanish front last spring, Actor Flynn was reported wounded by a machine-gun bullet. Prosaic truth was that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...
...proceeded methodically to second secretary at Bucharest and, after spending three years in Washington as secretary in the Division of Western European Affairs, at the State Department, became first secretary at Berne. From 1927 to 1931 he headed the Division of Western European Affairs. In 1931 he was made counselor of the Embassy in Paris, soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge...
...nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...
...death of Thomas Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow, during which period he rose from the youngest of the Corporation to be its revered senior member and keenest spirit...