Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1883; reached the U. S. in 1900; married Signe Toksvig of Denmark; did some law work in New York, editorial writing in Chicago, made the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour...
Last January, Robert Maynard Hutchins was 30. Last week he was made President of the University of Chicago. Going from Yale, where he is Dean of the Law School, he will duplicate and improve upon the feat of Chicago's first President, William Rainey Harper, who made the same journey for the same purpose...
...normal prodigy, neatly dressed in New Haven-tailored suits and plain neckties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was made Secretary of Yale University in 1923, while he was still in law school. Then he said: "I get so sick of hearing that I am young. I wish that I would suddenly grow up and get baldheaded. People come into my office and when they see me they laugh. President Angell said in a speech that Yale had robbed the cradle to get a secretary, and I replied that I wanted every one to know that I had a birthday last week...
...drove an ambulance, and to Italy, where for bravery he received the Croce di Guerra. Peace called him back to the U. S. and Yale. He worked his way through by organizing a Co-operative Tutoring Bureau. He was graduated with an A. B. in 1921, entered the Law School for a four-year course. Success and Dr. Angell had already marked him. He succeeded Anson Phelps Stokes, now canon of Washington Cathedral, as Secretary of the University. From studying law he turned to teaching it, continuing his University secretaryship until, two years ago, President Angell made him the youngest...
When Student Hutchins was still reading law, he married Miss Maude Phelps McVeigh, later an able sculpture student who won a prize in her second year at the Yale School of Fine Arts. To the University of Chicago will go a "first lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth...