Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard, 32, who is researching Old Gaelic at Yale; Robert Jr., 30, Cincinnati lawyer; Lloyd Bowers, 25, a reporter on the Cincinnati Times-Star; Horace Dwight, 22, student at Yale. All four sons served in World War II. Church: Low-church Episcopalian...
...graduate students and members of the Faculty in person. Failing this, it is up to these people to acknowledge their part in the W.S.S.F. drive on their own conscience, and to realize that a form letter can carry just as much urgency as the most persuasive door-to-door solicitor...
Every door in the Houses, Yard, and graduate schools will sound with the Harvard Food Relief Committee solicitor's knock starting today as 250 men start making the rounds for the world Student Service Fund, dedicated to keeping the overseas student movement alive...
...nudist magazines obscene, and therefore to be barred from the mails? No, said Post Office Solicitor Frank J. Delaney last week, after the first formal obscenity hearing since Esquire was cleared in 1946. In covering news among the uncovered, Naturel Herald of Sacramento had printed pictures of naked men & women at sunbathing camps. The pictures, the Post Office ruled, were "small, inoffensive and not posed for salacious effect." At the hearing, Herald Publisher Ivan Brovont apologized for his hoarse, thick voice; he had caught a bad cold, he said, from wearing clothes...
...Author. Peter Demianovich Ouspensky died last month in England, at 69, in the private obscurity wherein he had always preferred darkly to shine. His London solicitor believed that Ouspensky was "the greatest man alive." Sentiments like that of the solicitor were once held by various impressionable readers of A New Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere...