Word: law
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...believes that a union officer can afford to have a foreign accent but an organizer cannot. Most popular courses, however, are the history of I. L. G. W. U. and the U. S. labor movement, labor problems & the news, public speaking, parliamentary law. Recently the union made a rule that no one may be elected a paid officer unless he has finished a training course...
Dean of the Yale Law School is Charles Clark. Last week his younger brother Samuel was dean of an impromptu law school in Washington to explain to graduate lawyers a major change in corporate bankruptcy laws which goes into effect this week. This first general revision in corporate bankruptcy laws in 40 years was passed by Congress last June. Named for its introducer, Representative Walter Chandler of Memphis, the Chandler Act is actually the baby of the SEC, whose Chairman William O. Douglas was made a commissioner in recognition of a three-year study of corporate bankruptcies. One of Bill...
Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte...
...spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round of weddings and funerals, his puppy loves-the period, in short, which is grounded in Author DeJong...
...first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less. He flouts their social codes, which he dismisses as the unpractical rigmarole of idealists who "think of nothing but marriage and death and the honor...