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...main line of legal precedent was restated recently by C. Dickerman Williams, a Manhattan lawyer, in an article, "Problems of the Fifth Amendment," first printed by the Fordham Law Review and now being distributed by the Fund for the Republic. Williams, onetime law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written...
...career. A hosiery salesman's son who went to work at 14 "cleaning 17 cuspidors a day for 17 underwear salesmen," Feinberg rose to be a cuspidor user in two years, quit his $75-a-week salesman's job when it interfered with his evening studies at Fordham Law School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in law (which he never practiced), was helping "put together" hosiery combines by the time...
...still doesn't. He worked tirelessly; he still does. He helped keep the accounts for the De Sapio trucking firm, hustled new customers, many times was out on the docks at 3 a.m. on hauling jobs. He planned to be a lawyer, took pre-law courses at Fordham and attended night classes for a year at the Brooklyn Law School. But iritis, a chronic eye ailment that was the residue of an earlier bout with rheumatic fever, ended his schooling. (His mother still mourns his failure to become a lawyer, saying, "A solid thing. He would've been...
...meet, the first of its type to be held in this area, the Crimson scored 223 points, 36 more than second place Brown. The other finishers were: Yale, 96; Tufts, 41; Williams, 38; M.I.T., 7; Fordham, 4; and Dartmouth, 3. Cross led the victors with 34 points...
Citing similar work done in New York City by Columbia and Fordham, Robert L. Wise '49, a member of the Committee on Urban Conservation and Renewal, asked "education to shoulder this new type of responsibility." Wise issued the suggestions in a minority report to the Committee...