Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
...brightest spot in the Democratic column was the victory in Rhode Island of promising, 43-year-old J. (for James) Howard McGrath, onetime U.S. Solicitor General and youngest governor in his state's history. A half-dozen others of the new crop of Senators are still in their 40s. Just 50 is New York's dogged, fair-minded Irving Ives, swept in by the Dewey landslide. Oldsters of the Group are 67-year-old Ed Martin and Vermont's bald, bespectacled Ralph Flanders, 65, a liberal-minded Republican Yankee businessman who had the support of the C.I.O...
...sent City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern to the courts to get an injunction forbidding the strike on the ground that the city's welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...bosses and Mrs. Roosevelt got together in a traditionally smoke-heavy private dining room of Albany's Hotel DeWitt Clinton the night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...soliciters for the Harvard Food Relief Committee will give to contributors a printed receipt, containing a serial number, the sum of the donation, and the signature of the solicitor. Students are warned not to give cash to anyone who cannot give them an official receipt...