Word: felix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manage employment agencies tend to become critical about jobs. Naturally choosy is greyish, gracious little Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a one-man, unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UP). A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today voted a favorable report on the fitness of Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court after the noted Jewish Liberal denied he is or ever had been a Communist and announced his full devotion to the principles and practices of Americanism...
Under heavy fire from the seemingly impatient members of a senate judiciary committee, three individuals opposed yesterday the nomination of Professor Felix Frankfurter to the supreme court to no seeming avail. No organized opposition was evident and an early confirmation of the appointment was indicated in the day's hearings according to a United Press dispatch...
Psychological Clue. Psychoanalyst Felix Deutsch, who left Vienna three years ago to do research work in Harvard Medical School, told physicians meeting in Manhattan last week how he had used psychoanalysis to relieve 100 cases of asthma which had not responded to routine medical treatment. Two main factors which cause asthma, said Dr. Deutsch, are: 1) an underlying susceptibility of the lungs or respiratory tract; 2) a psychological shock. When a psychoanalyst discovers that psychological shock is the precipitating cause, he explains it to the patient, said Dr. Deutsch, and the asthma often disappears. "That there is an emotional background...
...Nieman Fellowships. Probably twelve will be granted. Meanwhile, an "interim report" by Curator MacLeish modestly measured progress to date. Statistics: each Fellow takes five or more courses; the Baltimore Sun's Reporter Frank Hopkins leads with ten, ranging from American Constitutional Government to Byzantine History. Favorite instructors include Felix Frankfurter and Dr. Heinrich Brüning, ex-Chancellor of Germany, and Granville Hicks...