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...plum with which Dr. Fagg was tempted was the deanship of Northwestern's School of Commerce. At Northwestern, as at several other institutions, the business school has become the biggest branch of the university...
Last March, with the Bureau of Air Commerce under fire from a Senate investigating committee as result of a series of plane crashes, Dr. Fagg was brought to Washington to replace Eugene L. Vidal as director. He went quietly to wort, reorganizing the bureau, established a safety and planning division that began to study more and better safety devices for pilots. By last week, when President Walter Dill Scott made a tempting offer to him to return to Northwestern, bureau officials and the industry at large were sorry...
...universities have been raided heavily since 1933 by Washington. Last week the tables were turned when Northwestern University robbed Washington of one of its most brilliant young men, 41-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., who in seven months, as Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, had transformed that division from an Administration headache to a smile...
...counterraid, for Washington had taken Dr. Fagg from Northwestern. A teacher of economics and law for 15 years-at Harvard, University of Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...
Northwestern's School of Commerce, which last year placed all but six of its graduates in jobs, limits its enrollment, this fall rejected 40% of applicants. Dean Fagg, who will finish out the year in Washington and go to his new job in June, will take over one of the oldest (1908) and the second largest (7,650 students) business schools in the nation. He will particularly try to train aviation executives...