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Professor Archibald Cox '34, who served as Hand's law clerk said that. The opinions of Judge Hand have had significant influence in breaking down the restrictions imposed by the dry literalism of conservative tradition and in showing how to use with sympathetic understanding the information afforded by legislative and administrative processes...
...toughest districts; the oldest boy in a family of 14 kids, he had worked since he was eleven. Jim Moran had followed O'Dwyer up to the big time: they got together when O'Dwyer was a county judge in Brooklyn, and Moran a court clerk. Before O'Dwyer retired to become Ambassador to Mexico, he gave 49-year-old Jim Moran a present suitable for a faithful friend-a lifetime job at $15,000 a year as water commissioner...
Republican Congressman Walter Brehm, respected dentist from Logan, Ohio and a member of Congress for eight years, last week walked out of a Washington, D.C. courtroom in disgrace. A jury had just convicted him of extracting campaign fund kickbacks from an office clerk's salary. He was found guilty of getting $1,000 from Clerk Emma Craven, but not guilty of taking money from another clerk in his Washington office, tiny, 74-year-old Clara Soliday...
...happen at his bureau. One morning at dawn, A.P.'s young Czech translator, Tomas Svoboda, was whisked away in a police raid on his home. Shortly, two other Czech employees vanished. Last week on Sunday, worried Correspondent Oatis himself hurried into the U.S. embassy to report to the clerk on duty that he was being shadowed by Czech secret police 24 hours a day. Oatis said he would return next day. He did not return...
...state," for trying to get "certain secret reports" and putting out "illegal press materials insulting the Czechoslovak republic." At midnight, while putting his car in the garage, he had been seized by three plainclothesmen who stepped out of the shadows. Simultaneously, a fourth employee vanished, leaving only a girl clerk of Oatis' original staff of five...