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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will head the list of speakers. Others who will address the meeting are Frederick H. Martin '93, president of the Harvard Club of New York, and John Henry Williams '02, dean of the new Graduate School of Public Administration. Dean Williams will discuss the aims of the Littauer School which is to be opened next year...
...trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron Louis von Rothschild, to whose castle the Duke of Windsor went after the Abdication (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936). Top-flight correspondents of Jewish blood left voluntarily...
Justice Brandeis, who still gives advice now and then to shaggy, crusading Deputy Commissioner Judd Dewey, would list the following reasons for the notable success of his idea: 1) Primary tenet of the Brandeis economic faith is that efficiency decreases with size. Savings banks are small, decentralized. And of course their life insurance departments are controlled by the same State reserve laws that control all insurance companies. 2 ) Terms in most cases are more beneficial to the policyholders. Most old-line policies cannot be turned in for cash till after the third year and then there is a surrender charge...
...back up this assertion, Lawyer McCall read a list of such cases all but the first of which have been turned up by SEC since the market crash gave many brokers the choice of crockery or failure-Richard J. Daly, who pleaded guilty to hypothecating $150,000 in customers' securities last June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners...
...eight select economics, ninety-six government and forty-three history. English comes next with thirty-six. We can remember--it was only a few years ago--when it seemed that every young man in journalism wanted to be a critic of the drama. But only three out of the list of applicants for Harvard list the drama as their principal interest. Most of the candidates say they want to go back to their papers after an enlightening year at Harvard, but that they hope to be able to write more intelligently of governmental and economic problems. They invariably admit that...