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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Levy Mayer, widow of the celebrated Chicago attorney who died a year ago, presented $500,000 to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) for the erection of a new Law School building. It will be named Levy Mayer Hall, and ground for it will be broken early next Spring. The Dean of the Northwestern University School of Law is Colonel John H. Wigmore. He is the author of a Treatise on Evidence-the most celebrated treatise of its kind ever written. During the War, he was General Enoch H. Crowder's right- hand man in the formulation of the principles governing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Levy Mayer's Memorial | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

...late Levy Mayer was a personality as interesting as Dean Wigmore. For years he was a leader of the Chicago Bar, specializing in business and corporation practice. He was also an authority on theatrical law. He was reputed to have had an income comparable to that of Samuel Untermyer or Max D. Steuer, both of whom are said to make (in Manhattan) at least $500,000 per annum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Levy Mayer's Memorial | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

...Boston, Henry S. Dennison '99, of Framingham, James J. Storrow '85, of Boston, George F. Baker Jr. '17, of New York, presidents K. C. M. Sills of Bowdoin, W. W. Comfort of Haverford, Lemuel H. Murlin of Boston University, William Allan Neilson of Smith, Nathan Matthews '75, former mayer of Boston, Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York Times, Frank H. Simonds '00, of Washington, Judge James M. Morton Jr. '91, of Fall River, A. Hamilton Rice '98, of Newport, R. L., Theodore Roosevelt '09, of New York and Frederick J. Stimson '76, recently ambassador to Argentina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY PROMINENT MEN ON NEW COMMITTEE LIST | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...Alfred Mayer, correspondent for La Nacion (Buenos Aires), told a Manhattan journalist,* who appeared to be credulous, that in a certain Argentine field meet Firpo ran the mile in 4:23. (This is only a shade more than ten seconds beyond the best time ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dempsey-Firpo Notes | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...Mayer was counsel for the " Big Four" packers, for most of the leading distillers and liquor dealers, for some theatrical managers. Although a lawyer of scholarly attainments, he was noted chiefly for his capacity as an organizer and his ability as a business adviser. His estate is more than double that of the late John B. Stanchfield of New York, but his interest in the partnership of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian and Platt was realized at only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Levy Mayer's Estate | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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