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Engaged. Alice F. Du Pont, 22, air-minded daughter of air-minded Alexis Felix Du Pont of Wilmington, Del.; and James Paul Mills, polo-playing son of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills of Glen Head, L. I., great-grandson of the late Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel...
...Boarding a train one night Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to New London. There on the Thames, aboard the Sequoia, he entertained his old friend Felix Frankfurter. To the Presidential ear the Harvard professor confided that he had been asked to furnish a list of important works that he had never read. Dr. Frankfurter's list...
...whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman who manned NRA after its first champions had departed; gawky Attorney General Cummings who had tried to enforce NRA; Felix Frankfurter whose advice to stall off as long as possible a clear-cut court test of NRA's constitutionality had proved so ingloriously wrong...
...Senator Gerry sincere apologies. If he attended parties' at the Warwick Neck estate, it was while the late Col. Felix Wendelschaefer used it as a summer home, before the property passed into the hands of Suspect Rettich...
What further thoughts Franklin Roosevelt had were not disclosed. Felix Frankfurter, who was credited with advising the President to postpone a court test until NRA was an established success, and Mr. Richberg, who had declined to make the Court test on the Belcher lumber case (TIME, April 8) and then picked the Schechter case as the best way of taking NRA to Court, must both have felt distinctly sheepish. New Deal lieutenants on the House Ways & Means Committee fiddled around fruitlessly with a new bill to plug the holes the Supreme Court had dug in the Recovery...