Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with General Motors' President Charles Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
...Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation. Beaten earlier, the Republicans tried a flank movement in the final hours by holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped out into the pre-dawn darkness. The first, seven-month session of the 80th Congress...
Clay quit his $20,000-a-year job as general solicitor of the B. & O. soon after it went into bankruptcy in 1945 for failing to meet the terms of the loan. He charged that the bankruptcy was a "conspiracy" promoted by onetime RFC Boss Jesse Jones to keep RFC control of the road, put more RFC men in top B. & O. jobs...
...Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However, the College comprises only one of the four zones of University effort, and its remarkable showing is dangerously off-set by the disappointing record of the faculty...
Prior to his University appointment in October 1945. Professor Cox served on the National Defense Mediation Board and as Assistant Solicitor of the federal Department of Labor. A member of the Law Review while a student at the Law School, at one time he represented the University in cases involving textile mills owned by the Corporation...