Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Later he became junior partner of the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman. In 1871 he published a book "The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement," the material of which he gathered from Charles Sumner. President Grant the following year appointed him solicitor for the United States before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Last April, Governor Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Committee...
...upon the operations and the responsibilities of the promoter. In the first place, the promoter must be a man who understands thoroughly every phase of the business in which he intends to form a combination; he must of course have a wide reputation for honesty, and be an able solicitor. Ordinarily a large proportion of the capital of a concern is in the form of plants. Here the problem comes up as to how much stock shall be issued for this, and the solution is worked out by the promoter, who by getting cash options on the plants, raises their...