Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Loomis, disillusioned Seattle investment counselor, whom Beck hired as an adviser for Teamster investment, explained that little by little he got the wind of Dave's shenanigans, advised him more than once that it was time to straighten out his affairs. At length he fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General), and an expert in corporation law. He is the first to admit that he is essentially a counselor, an office lawyer; he has never tried a case in court...
...Counselor Brownell soon displayed a real talent for efficient administration-and if there was anything the Department of Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell...
...puppets, Diplomat Wailes took a final step to avoid doing so: he arranged with Washington to order him back "on consultation," then slipped out of Hungary into Austria, leaving legation affairs (including the care of its most celebrated house guest, Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty) in the hands of Counselor N. Spencer Barnes. Said Tom Wailes as he landed in New York en route to Washington: "The Hungarian people are the bravest I've ever seen...
When Hanford retired from the Dean's office, Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, remarked, "Above all, he will be remembered as a humane counselor of youth--a man who gave understanding and endless hours to multifold problems of individual students...