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Dean Landis will appoint the committee, which may withhold the award entirely, if in its judgment no worthy paper is submitted, or may divide the award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL COMPETITION STARTS IN LAW SCHOOL | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

...many months German and Italian advisers of General Franco have been urging him to appoint a definite Cabinet (or its equivalent) so that they could present Rightist Spain as a formally constituted Government in asking for foreign recognition. El Caudillo has always refused to do this because of the incessant political bickering among his assorted followers, but strengthened by the fall of Gijón, last week a Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Fall Before Winter | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Last week John Flynn said the new regime's first step would be to draft a plan to reorganize and centralize the administration, perhaps consolidate some schools and develop a "great institute of technology." Chairman Eisner revealed some members wanted to appoint a chancellor as chief for all the colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: City College | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...share of its attention on Hugo LaFayette Black. Struck out was a resolution to hold an investigation of "the latest appointee to the Supreme Court." In its stead the A. B. A. adopted a resolution to petition the U. S. Senate to hold public hearings on all future judicial appointments. Dead set against the President's Court Plan and fearful of his efforts to revive it. the Association voted to appoint a Special Commission of seven members to report any further efforts to enlarge the Supreme Court to the A. B. A. for a referendum, devote itself to maintaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A. B. A. at Kansas City | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle announced he had just appointed a committee of seven lawyers to study criminal procedure in Pennsylvania. Veteran Harrisburg Newspaperman George Her Fisher asked: "Why don't you appoint a layman on it?" Governor Earle snapped back: "O. K., you're on, George." The appointment was made official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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