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Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained...
...secret of living healthily, happily and usefully in old age? How has Stagg done it? In fields unrelated to physical fitness, how has the same goal been achieved by other productive oldsters, such as ex-President Herbert Hoover (84), Senator Theodore Francis Green (91), and Manhattan Lawyer Charles C. Burlingham...
...four oldest living alumni are Milton M. Marble of the Class of 1889 who is 100 years old; Charles C. Burlingham of the Class of 1879 who is 97; William H. White of the Class of 1880 who is 97; and William W. Kent of the Class...
Marble is from Detroit; Burlingham from New York; White from Boston; and Kent from New York...
Charles C. Burlingham '79, joined R. Keith Kane '22, member of the Corporation; Grenville Clark '03, former Corporation member; and Laird Bell '04, Overseer, in deploring "any effort to criticize or reproach Gov. Stevenson for testifying" on what he had heard of the reputation of Hiss...