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...Cahill, 62, senior partner of one of Manhattan's top corporate-law firms, a sedate Harvard Law grad ('27) who spent the rackety '30s as a public prosecutor, won convictions in 97.8% of his cases the first year, sent up Gangster Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Communist Earl Browder and assorted dope pushers, counterfeiters and post-Prohibition bootleggers, even boarded the Normandie to confiscate Marlene Dietrich's jewels (as collateral against back income tax claims) before she sailed, and extracted fines from Jack Benny and George Burns for purchasing items that had been smuggled through customs; of cancer...
...senior year, Harvard was almost the Berkeley of its time. President Conant's tenure policy was debated and discussed by nearly everyone A "free speech" controversy flared then the Corporation refused to give the John Reed Club a room for a speech by Communist party leader Earl Browder. And anti-war groups abounded. On one April day, the Harvard Student Union held a peace rally addressed by CIO leader Mike Quill, the Harvard Anti-War Committee blasted the Union as Communist-dominated and held its own peace rally with Norman Thomas, and the American Independence League attacked both sides...
...Dallas boosters (mostly ex-Confederate colonels from Tennessee bribed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to come to Dallas. The Texas and Pacific building West, though, wouldn't be bought or persuaded. A crafty state legislator from Dallas tacked a rider onto the railroad's authorization bill that specified Browder Springs as a watering spot. Not knowing that Browder Springs was adjacent to Dallas, the Legislature made the bill law and, unwittingly, the Texas and Pacific came to Dallas...
...board wanted to broaden the range of topics and views covered by the editorial page, Olin Browder, professor of law and chairman of the board, said last night. Also, Browder charged, had approached "the limits of libel the code of ethics under which a newspaper should operate...
...board, which holds ultimate authority over all university publications, interviews each candidate for any publication office before acting on the recommendations submitted by the outgoing executives. Said Browder of Caroline who was moved up to co-editorials . "She made a very excellent impression on the board." Said Miss Dow: them what they wanted to hear." Miss Dow also said yesterday she had told the board that the students on the paper planned to broaden their coverage anyway...