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...Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact, that last week State Insurance Department officials could well afford the modest protest that it was "no Magna Charta...
...tyro in fiscal postmortems, the author of these flat statements is 42-year-old Bernard Joseph Reis. who graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 1915, earned an LL. B. there in 1918, a C. P. A. in 1921. Since then he has been professionally exploring such corporate cadavers as the collapsed G. L. Miller Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Co. business of 1926, done accounting work for courts and public prosecutors in bankruptcies and reorganizations. In his book he reviews what happened to $11,988,814,205 of defaulted securities "sold to the public by reputable banking houses...
...City and the District of Columbia, no Negro has ever before sat on the Federal bench. No mere political gesture to colored constituents was this appointment, however, for William Hastie, Knoxville born, is rated one of the ablest Negro lawyers in the U. S. He was graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard Law School and became one of Felix Frankfurter's "Hot Dog Boys." He and his .cousin Charles H. Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro...
...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...
Biggest and reputedly best of Harvard's bureaus is run by Harold ("Hal") Wolff. Tutor Wolff, who graduated magna cum lande in anthropology in 1929, launched the practice of advertising in the Harvard Crimson his willingness to be of assistance in preparing for approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that...