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Appointed deputy county attorney in Wichita in 1907, Lawyer McGill made an early reputation by winning every case he brought to trial, then spent two undistinguished decades in criminal law and local politics before he was elected to fill the Senate vacancy left by Hoover Vice President Charles Curtis in 1930. Two years later he won a practically foolproof campaign as a Roosevelt and Labor man against old Republican Senator Henry Allen...
...Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into his old room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been for a year a cog in the legal staff of President Hoover's RFC. Ben Cohen had signed on to help James Landis draft the Securities Exchange Act. Thrown together on this job, Corcoran & Cohen have been inseparable since...
Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...
...Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter of such bigwigs as Marshal Foch, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover; of portal cirrhosis; at New Castle...
...Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington a Communist...