Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selection of Rhodes Scholars? It is not quite fair to say that "the trustees are aroused to the deficiencies etc." as if they had not heretofore been conscious thereof. The trouble, The trouble, of course, has been the difficulty of altering the terms of a trust under English law. It is very likely that Rhodes himself wished the Trustees to have complete latitude to make such changes but the Will was so worded as to necessitate an act of Parliament. Again, you imply that heretofore the officials have disapproved of men who stayed only two years. While this has been...
...That prisons are too pleasant, and justice too lenient, he thought years ago when he wrote his first full-length thriller, The Four Just Men. He thinks so still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South...
...rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling did she bring them together again, finding in the process a deep...
Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition...
...policy to have in training within the organization a likely successor for every important post. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 37, his son-in-law, is a vice president of the company and extremely active in its management. So too is Julius Ochs Adler, nephew, 36, vice president and treasurer. Mr. Sulzberger has four children-three girls and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Mr. Adler has one son-Julius Ochs Adler Jr. Looming on the Board of Editors as a potential heir to power if not to stock is able Arthur Krock, onetime chief of the Louisville Times, onetime aide to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer...