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...Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look too raw to his State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senator Pro Tem | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

When the Dodds committee has surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gloveman's Gift | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...politics, such appointments are normal. Last week Senators Black and Bankhead urged the President to appoint David J. Davis to succeed the late Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama who blasted NRA and TVA with adverse decisions. Prime recommendation that Senator Black gave for Mr. Davis was that he is "a strong supporter of the present Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coal Act | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...name of mercy, I ask you to appoint a doctor to take my life. I am constantly in pain. I want to die. A competent physician could certainly kill me with less pain than I endure in an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Right to Kill (Cont'd) | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...Commuters' Center in Dudley Hall. The announcement was made last night by Peregrine White 2L, graduate secretary of the Center. Inasmuch as this is the initial year that the Center has been in existence, it was decided by White, and Reginald H. Phelps 5G, Assistant Secretary, to appoint the chairman and two members of the house committee, which is to consist of seven members, and to hold elections for the four vacant positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEREGRINE WHITE NAMES COMMUTERS' COMMITTEE | 10/30/1935 | See Source »

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