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Hand retired from the Court of Appeals in 1951, after serving on its bench for 27 years, although he still sits on a number of cases. Previous to that appointment, he served as a U.S. district judge in New York State from 1902 to 1924. Graduated summa cum laude, he received his A.M. here in 1894 and his LL.B. cum laude from the Law School in 1896. He was given an honorary LL.D. from the University...
Born poor in the southern Indiana hill country, Shay Minton went to work when he was "about 14," put himself through Indiana University and Law School (top of the class) and Yale Law School (cum laude, 1916), served in the infantry in World War I at Soissons and Verdun. Settling in New Albany, Ind., he practiced law, was elected to the U.S. Senate in Depression-drugged 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution." For six years Minton had a place in the vanguard...
...must be recruited from the "workers' and peasants' class," with priority for the remaining openings given to members of the "productive intelligentsia" (i.e., "deserving activists," "deserving teachers of the people," "deserving inventors," college professors), and to such heterogeneous categories as "recognized victims of fascism," inmates of orphanages, cum laude high-school graduates. Although high-school grades are in theory a determining factor, they actually have far less to do with a student's chances than his family background and his record of "social" (i.e., political) activity. The final high-school oral examination is a simple exercise...
...usual, is lagging behind in the innocence-cum-diabolism department, but there are signs of progress. Somewhat out of this class, both by virtue of her advanced years (22) and the intense seriousness of her subject matter, is Lucy Daniels (see below). While less concerned with sex than social conscience, her fine novel nevertheless manages to include hints of miscegenation as well as murder...
...dropped out of the University of Missouri after a year to be a nightclub master of ceremonies in St. Louis. But at 20 he changed his mind, took over a dilapidated little church in Stroud. Okla., and made up his college work at the same time, graduating cum laude from the University of Tulsa in 1939. After two years of graduate work at the University of Chicago and a year as pastor in Los Angeles, he was ready to move in on oil-rich Oklahoma City...