Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petitions are being circulated by the Student Union and the Cambridge Teachers' Union throughout the college, the Medical School, and Law School. Late last night over 1000 undergraduates and 300 faculty members had signed the petitions, according to Avram Goldstein '40, student head of the drive...
...behavior of criminals differs radically and conspicuously from that of law-abiding people; therefore Hooton boldly set out in 1926 to get anthropological data on criminals. His trained field workers spent three years collecting it, and another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
...group of 414 robbers, six had none of these characteristics at all, no robber had all nine, and only one had as many as seven. But more than half had two or three of the features, which was a significantly higher incidence than in other criminal classes or in law-abiding people...
...ever to be commissioner when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him five years ago (he says modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
...Henry quit Guaranty in 1931, having quietly acquired a financial background that fitted him to handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive...