Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...
...full Cabinet roster runs to 21 ministers, with six more in a secondary category and not ordinarily present at the Cabinet table-an example, the Solicitor General for Scotland, A. M. MacRobert. Two peers hold high but chiefly honorary Cabinet rank: the Earl of Balfour (Premier 1902-05), and the Marquess of Salisbury-these respectively Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords...
...City Solicitor Nelligan next called some more witnesses for the prosecution: Sergeant J.E. Winslow of Station 1 stated that he had reproved Ferguson for drinking out of a bottle at the Smoker. There was no doubt, he said, of Ferguson's identity and declared that he was sitting in the orchestra half the way down the left center on the aisle...
Eugene Chen. Who is this Chinese with whom the august Chancellor of the Exchequer deigned to bandy words? In 1878 he was born in Trinidad, British West Indies; went to London, qualified as a solicitor (lawyer) and enjoyed a successful practice for some years in the capital of the very power he is now fighting tooth and nail...
When he first went to work as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during...