Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chamber. Mr. Reed was helped to a private room. A cup of coffee was fetched for him. After 30 minutes he went home and to bed. Next day the Department of Justice announced that Mr. Reed would plead no more in the case of Lee Moor. Instead, a Government brief would be filed with the Court...
...lecturer on Brief Making and Preparation of Cases at the Law School, Hugh D. McLellan, judge of the United States District Court of Massachusetts, has been named, to hold the position until September 1, 1936. Judge McLellan graduated from Colby in 1895, and took his LL.B. at Columbia after which he practiced law in Boston until 1932 when he received his post on the bench...
...members of the Societe des Aims de Puniversite of the University of Paris and by Dr. Donald Lowrie, director of the United States House in University City. It was through their generous hospitality that the group was made to feel at home, and through which it received a brief but realistic view of French life...
...work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes the going smooth and pleasant. However, the worth of the book does not depend on its literary merits. As an historical analysis of the condition of the American campus since 1917 and as a brief, however sublimated, for the political organization of college youth in the active struggle against "suppression, discrimination and violence" the work is of deep significance, journalistically at least...
...professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...