Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICAN NABOB-Holmes Alexander -Harper ($2.50).
At 24, two years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of...
In Bellingham (pop. 30,823), a turbulent town long torn by private feuds and political catfights, Newspaperman Sefrit is known as "Little Hearst." Charles Fisher, an educational progressive, for 16 years has been president of Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham, which he made one of the most esteemed...
There is no escaping the Oedipus complex, said Freud, for it is our heritage from primitive ancestors, who killed their fathers in fits of jealous rage. "We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us...
He was Chairman of the Princetonian during his Senior year and he is now a member of the Law Review. He will be Mr. Frankfurter's secretary for one year. This custom of appointing a high ranking Law School graduate was began by the late Justice Holmes.