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...Cruise. Last week the French Line announced a six-week post-graduate law cruise this summer aboard its France, open to all members of the bar. There will be a staff of 13 lecturers headed by Representative James Montgomery Beck, one-time Solicitor General of the U. S. who was last week arguing New Jersey water rights in the U. S. Supreme Court...
...approval was sought by New York City's corporation counsel and an assistant attorney general of the State. Chief Justice Hughes withdrew from the case because he had once done legal work on the city's water program. Of counsel for New Jersey was U. S. Representative James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania. This one-time Solicitor General of the U. S. whose right to a House seat was questioned because his domicile was in Washington, not Philadelphia, used to spend summers at Sea Bright, N. J. He argued that New York City should get its water from the Hudson River...
Marking the end of the long struggle to keep Beck Hall connected with the University, the announcement was made yesterday of the sale of the historic dormitory, the large brick building which stands between Harvard and Massachusetts Avenue with its broadside facing Quincy Square. The dormitory was sold to Harris Poorvu, Boston realtor, by the Charleston Five Cent Savings Bank, which had recently taken it over from the Beck Hall Trust a group of Harvard alumni headed by G.P. Davis...
When questioned late yesterday as to what he would do with Beck Hall. Poorvu declared that he did not have definite plans as yet, but that in all probability it would never again be used as a students' dormitory. Stating that he had also acquired the large vacant lot just behind the hall, he said that he might develop the entire property. Whether it would be an apartment house or a business block he refused to say and added that he might sell it without ever doing anything...
This finally ends over seven years of wrangling about the disposition of the building during which time it has been either wholly or partially occupied by University students. Last June the hall and the land adjoining it on the east were put up at auction by the Beck Hall Trust and sold to James Thurman for $161,000. However, Thurman never paid the amount and instead gave the hall back to its former owners. This led Davis in the fall acting for the Trust, to offer to give the building to anyone who would assume the taxes and mortgages amounting...