Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buried beneath an avalanche of facts, figures, and uninteresting detail there is in the report on Law School eating conditions this inescapable fact: no more than one third of the men are satisfied, and probably one half are dissatisfied, with conditions as they exist today. Such a general statement is necessarily subject to qualification on many different scores, and is based on returns from only one half of the graduate body; but nevertheless it carries important implications for all students -- undergraduates and graduates alike--who have hopes of obtaining from the University their daily bread...
...Congress is about to consider the Patman Chain Store Tax bill, which would exterminate the big chains. Chief reason the chains fear the bill may become law is that no less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
Oetje (pronounced eachie) John Rogge was a Harvard Law School classmate of Tommy Corcoran, currently has the juicy job of handling SEC's attack on Transamerica Corp., the $138,000,000 bank holding company accused of registering "false and misleading statements...
With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories...
...recent meeting of the Law Review Charles M. Ewing was elected president and John F. Costelloe was elected treasurer...