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Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime president of the American Bar Association and of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and a hard-bitten Republican critic of the New Deal, is senior partner of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew...
Hand, who graduated magna cum laude, received both the A.M. degree and his Bachelor of Laws in 1894. He began practice in New York the next year, and joined the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, and Colt. Later he organized his own firm and practiced until 1914. In that year he was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court by President Wilson...
Besides these developments in the internal situation the policy of the Crimson with regard to other colleges has changed materially. Harvard was once a firm believer in the principle of the Munroe doctrine and refused to enter any league, compact, or agreement. At present Harvard is a league competitor in almost every sport...
...have long suspected that you were a firm with definite fascist leanings. Now I know that I was right...
Founder Butler's brothers died not long after the firm was moved in 1879 from Boston to Chicago, where its headquarters have been ever since. Prospering exceedingly, ''E. B." Butler lived until 1928, sinking some of his catalog millions into philanthropies like Jane Addams' Hull House and the Glenwood Manual Training School south of Chicago. He fathered the enabling legislation that promoted Chicago's Lake Front development. But before he died, old "E. B." reluctantly admitted that the cherished catalog that had made him rich could no longer serve as a wholesaler's sole...