Word: lasky
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...published Holmes' correspondence with Sir Frederick Pollock. That edition, like Howe's later editions of Holmes' Civil War letters and his correspondence with Harold Laski, was notable for the unobtrusively informative notes with which Howe outfitted his text. Scarcely a book was so obscure or a person so forgotten by history that Howe was unable to provide Holmes' reference with concise words of identification and appraisal...
...went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket." See THE NATION, The Use of Power With a Passion for Peace...
...after memorizing an optometrist's chart so that his poor eyesight wouldn't keep him out. He became an officer, was assigned as a military aide to Admiral Alan G. Kirk. In wartime London, Bill Bundy recalls, Mac knew all the right people. "He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket...
...class. By 1917, already on the law school faculty, he was spending most of his time as assistant to the Secretaries of War and Labor-to say nothing of his service as chairman of the War Labor Policies Board. "Mr. Wilson has charge of foreign policy," Harold Laski wrote to Justice Holmes. "Felix seems to sponsor the rest of the Government...
...better part of six years Figueres remained in the United States. Bent on a career of his own, he returned his family's checks and supported himself translating technical documents. In New York he continued his informal studies, reading Ruskin, the Fabians, and Laski with particular avidity...