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Four noted judges will read all letters received and pick the winner. They are Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago; Frederick B. Robinson, President of the City of New York College; Ray L. Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University; and Henry N. MacCracken, President of Vassar College. Their decision is final...
...citizen may submit a nomination for the Hall of Fame. Any U. S. hero dead 25 years may be nominated. When the Hall of Fame was originated in 1900 by N. Y. U.'s late Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, it was expected to be filled by the year 2000. But The Electors whom the University appoints for each quinquennial election have grown fussier & fussier. In the election of 1900 it was easy to fill 29 niches with superheroes. In 1905 eight lesser heroes were elected, in 1910 ten, and since then the number has steadily dwindled until last week...
...pocket a handkerchief, at his throat a red cravat with large white polka dots, the chief police officer of the U. S. Senate last week set out upon a manhunt. Last year Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney tracked down through a fairyland of misadventures Lawyer-Lobbyist William P. MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters, was out to hijack a prize utility lobby witness captured by rival House investigators...
Refusing to see newshawks, Prisoner MacCracken rested on a prepared statement which vigorously protested his innocence, laid full responsibility for permitting destruction of the papers on his partner, Frederic P. Lee. In the Senate, Vermont's Republican Warren Robinson Austin almost started a party fight by taking up MacCracken's protest. In the House, Texas' voluble William Doddridge McFarlane introduced a resolution demanding that Prisoner MacCracken either resign from the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or be impeached...
...case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous occasions, he was no doubt deeply grateful...