Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue. Actually, the decision had narrow application. It dealt only with the New York City charter provision-and only to the extent that Slochower had not been given a hearing and had, therefore, been denied due process of law. The opinion (Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas concurring) was, in fact, careful to point out: "This is not to say that Slochower has a constitutional right to be an associate professor of German at Brooklyn College. The state has broad powers in the selection and discharge of its employees...
...president of his class. He breezed through college, where he roomed with Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. At Harvard Law School he won the prized presidency of the Law Review, graduated tenth in a class of 400 and caught the eye of New Deal Talent Scout Professor Felix Frankfurter. That landed him a job as Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's law clerk. The next year Graham clerked for Frankfurter himself...
...Glut of Side Dishes. For all his first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
...modern dispensary equipped with X ray to spot TB cases, plenty of drugs, and a helicopter to remove serious cases to the mainland. Last week the mainland offered to equip a dispensary-but only if the islanders would pay their taxes. "No. never. We will never surrender." said Innkeeper Felix Guilcher, and to a man, the aroused Senans echoed...
Congratulations for a good presentation on the new French Cabinet member, Felix Houphouet-Boigny [Feb. 13]. It is refreshing to see old, weary French politicians call on a man from West Africa to rewrite the French Union; even more inspiring to see that they have found for the job a well-trained and well-prepared man who is a good Christian...