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...Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...novel legal announcement last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale's subject is "Jurisdiction for Divorce"; Professor Williston's, "Consideration...
...happiest of the "happy hot dogs" whom Harvard Law School's Professor Felix Frankfurter is supposed to have hand-picked to put across the New Deal, had reason last week to be happier than ever. Now 39, now dean of the University of Wisconsin's Law School, good-natured, baldish, ruddy-cheeked Lloyd Kirkham Garrison whose famed great-grandfather helped free the slaves, grinned with pleasure as Governor Philip La Follette signed a new law to free debt-bur-dened low-income earners in Wisconsin from the legal restraints of garnishment...
...week's end Soarer du Pont, who is president of the Soaring Society, was declared U. S. champion for 1937, having earned 182 points. For a climb to 5,890 ft. he was awarded a gold trophy and $500 prize offered by his airminded father, Vice President A. Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In points. Peter Reidel of Germany was ahead of Du Pont with a score of 196 but the German was not eligible for the U. S. championship...
...Felix Vorenberg, another successful Boston merchant (perhaps not quite so rich), and Pierre Jay, then State Bank Commissioner, were both liberal enough to have sensed the potential value of Credit Unions for working people as far back as 1909, which was before Mr. Filene had become fully aware of the future possibilities of "talking liberally" about them. Had it not been for these pioneering crusaders, Massachusetts might never have had a Credit Union Law and Mr. Filene and his associates might not have had the cornerstone on which to build the National Credit Union Movement...