Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal system, Harvard opens this fall the work of the new Institute of Criminal Law, whose Director is Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Harvard Law School. To assist Professor Sayre, Professor Sam Bass Warner comes to Harvard from the University of Syracuse and Mr. Sheldon Glueck, author of "Mental Disorders and the Criminal Law", becomes Assistant Professor of Criminology and assumes a position on the staff of the new Institute. Assistant Professor John Joseph Burns of the Harvard Law School will collaborate with Professor Sayre in the Institute...
...leader of the Jewish war relief movement which raised $5,000,000; U. S. Jewish representative at Geneva in 1919; president since 1912 of the American Jewish Committee. Modest, retiring, Mr. Marshall never disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
...Patriarch is out again, in 24 revised, amplified, revivified volumes. From "A to Anno" to "Vase to Zygo" a new, humanizing, journalistic touch is felt. To whom does a good journalist turn for the best account of the big prizefight? To the champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write...
...above liberty-lovers and many another Author Smith writes with full sympathy, a modern criminological attitude and a sense of what thrills. Presumably, few convicts will be allowed to read the book...