Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memorable for Harry Hopkins' speech in Iowa, which may help decide the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 (see p. 11), last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...bright boy at Princeton, the University of Virginia Law School or Washington & Lee was lanky Frank Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed...
Peter J. Chenevy '41, James E. Meredith, Jr., '42, Samuel R. Sheppard '41, and Robert W. Woodward '40 were elected to a general committee. Plans for the club's Spring production, to be given the first week in May, are well under...
Wesleyan University has invited all Harvard students to attend its annual Parley on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. The subject will be "American Foreign Policy" and many authorities will speak, among them Senator Nye, Adolph A. Berle, Jr. '12, assistant, Secretary of State, and Nathaniel Peffer, authority on the Far East. Wesleyan will arrange for accommodations and meals at its own expense...
Ballots will be issued only on the presentation of membership cards for identification. The polling places in the House dining halls, the Freshman Union, Dudley Hall, and Phillips Brooks House will be open during lunch and dinner hours. Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39 is in charge of the election. All members are urged to vote...