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Edmund L. Morgan, Acting Dean of the Law School, said merely, "No, thank you, I don't care to comment on it." Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, likewise declined to express a public opinion as yet of the message. Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law in the Law School, whom many believe wrote both the bill and much of the message which accompanied it, said, "You're very kind to ask me, but I have not a word to say. No, NOT A WORD...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...
...Manhattan's Town Hall, Author Christopher Morley debated his brother, Editor Felix Morley of the Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine...
...terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
Appointed, James McCauley Landis, 37, chairman of the Federal Securities & Exchange Commission, protege of Brain Truster Felix Frankfurter; to be dean of the Harvard Law School, succeeding Roscoe Pound; in Cambridge, Mass...