Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JAMES M. LANDIS, brilliant Roosevelt "brain truster" and chairman of the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission, will return to Harvard next September to become the new "boss" of many of the teachers that started him on his successful law career. Three weeks ago Harvard's Pres. James Bryant Conant announced that Mr. Landis had accepted the appointment as dean of the Crimson's famed law school to succeed equally famed Roscoe Pound...
Enesco was 12 when he continued his studies in composition and harmony at the Paris Conservatory. He had teachers like Massenet and Faure. At 17 he took a brilliant first prize in violin and began to tour...
...four well-known lawyers, including Charles Evans Hughes Jr., asked that one of them take the job. Unanimously they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name was big enough to head the investigation. Finally, however...
...Brilliant, likable, a courtroom virtuoso, he had built up a prosperous practice by the time Governor Lehman's call came, and he hated to give it up. But as Assistant...
...hoped that on the basis of this service ways and means will be found of reaching the brilliant student at all high schools, no matter how remote. Thus the plan, will fundamentally, extend the principle already put into practice by the Harvard National Scholarships through which it is hoped to bring the leading minds of the country to Cambridge