Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...innocent bystander, was mild Ben Cohen, almost the only early New Dealer left in Washington, and for the past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department. Furthermore he had been offered the job by Secretary of State Stettinius...
Thrift and Gifts. Until zooming taxes pared actual income, frugal Bachelor King saved hefty chunks from his public pay. He saved even more when, in the years following 1910, he served as an industrial counselor, for fat fees. Aside from his present salary and investments, he has two piddling sources of income. Royalties from his books still trickle in. And on a lake on his 100-acre Kingsmere summer estate, some 15 miles north of Ottawa, the Prime Minister has built a few sturdy cottages, rents them to vacationers...
Reassigned to Washington as Minister-Counselor, he soon picked up important extracurricular jobs. He was named chairman of the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, the potent supplies committee of UNRRA. and last summer was chairman of UNRRA's Montreal meeting. His big job now will be to press upon the U.S. Canada's claims for an effective voice in any world-security organization (see above...
...history from this broadcast. It's the setting up of the wide chessboard that's so fascinating. Many thanks for the fun, and a new look at things." And Winifred Fisher, Executive Director of the New York Adult Education Council, passed on a comment Dean Langmuir, investment counselor and brother of the electrical Irving, recently made to her. " 'The World and America' is perfectly wonderful," he said. "I wouldn't miss it for anything. I ought to know these things but I don't, or if I ever knew them I've forgotten...
Died. Gustave Meyer, 68, self-styled "American scientific astrologer - counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...