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...young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover picked him as a likely investigator to root around amid bankruptcy scandals in Federal courts. Ten years after he left Harvard, he found himself acting dean of University of Wisconsin Law School. It was from that post that President Roosevelt called him, aged 35. to Washington to head the Labor Relations...
...this time the Bar convention had become an outspoken free-for-all. The things that were said did not help the profession's standing with the general public but it did give A. B. A. members a righteous sense of housecleaning. John Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Department of Justice's bureau of investigation, leaped into the melee, shouting darkly: "I do not say that pardons have been purchased, although there have been rumors current to this effect...
...Herbert Hoover in the Saturday Evening Post: "The origin, character and affinities of the regimentation theory of economics and government . . . can best be determined by an examination of the actions taken and the measures adopted in the United States during recent months...
...Hudson can offer an established low-price model, Terraplane. Hudson also has Roy Dikeman Chapin (54), one of its founders, and one of the Industry's few shoe-string pioneers who are still relatively young. Roy Chapin did not look so young after serving a half-year as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce but since he returned to Detroit he has slowed Hudson's headlong flight into...
...Author. Born in 1896, Robert Littell is the great grandson of Eliakim Littell, who founded The Living Age in 1844. His father, Philip Littell, helped found The New Republic. Robert Littell left Harvard to enlist in the American Ambulance Corps, served as secretary to Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration after the War. He has been on the staff of The New Republic, was dramatic critic on the New York Evening Post, the old World. His first book, Read America First, was published in 1926. Candles in the Storm is his second...