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...retired from Congres but turned up frequently in Washington as a lobbyist for the glove industry. Especially in 1922, when he got the duty on cotton gloves upped 15%, Mr. Littauer deemed his tariff lobbying a public service on behalf of his neighbors and business associates...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...
...Gloveman Littauer conceived the idea of a Harvard School of Public Administration quite independently of Harvard authorities. To him, as to many another, the demands of the New Deal revealed the paucity of first-rate civil servants...
Last September Mr. Littauer broached his offer to President Conant. Under the plan announced last week Mr. Littauer will give Harvard $2,000,000, one quarter for a building, the rest as endowment. To lay the groundwork for the school, Dr. Conant last week appointed a committee headed by a fellow university president, Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds, who was the first chairman of the undergraduate School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton...
When the Dodds committee has surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will...