Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned out, was also lawyer for the building trades' unions. Cochran said he was warned that if union members committed any crime, such as pushing over a wall of Cochran's new house, City Solicitor McNulty would defend the unionists. And in fact...
Cheeky Brat. Belloc got off to a Bellocian start by being born within a fortnight of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. His father was an ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father...
Cambridge Solicitor Richard D. Gerould said that he knew of no city ordinance prohibiting the sale of obscene literature, but noted that local police were required to enforce a Massachusetts statute prohibiting the sale of such material...
...Hate to Think." Shanks rose swiftly, first as an adviser to the Pru's brass on their railroad securities, later as general solicitor for the company, finally in 1939 as a vice president. By 1944 he was the Prudential's executive vice president, second only to President Franklin D'Olier. With D'Olier away much of the time working for the government on the war effort, Shanks gradually became the company's acting president. Typically, one of his first moves was to call his vice presidents together and ask: "All right, now what...
...uncertainty of City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24 delayed action yesterday on a referendum about the hotly-contested appointments made by the School Committee last December. The City Council refused to set a date for the referendum until Gerould worked out how the question should be put to the voters...