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Died. James McCauley Landis, 64, onetime dean of Harvard Law School and F.D.R. brain-truster, Tokyo-born son of Presbyterian missionaries, who at the age of 34 drafted a new securities act for Roosevelt, at 37 became one of Harvard Law's youngest deans, then, in 1946, settled down to a lucrative Manhattan law practice (among his clients: Joseph Kennedy), worked as a presidential adviser to Joe's son Jack, but saw his fortunes collapse last year when he was convicted of failing to file federal income tax returns from 1956 through 1960; by drowning, in his backyard...
...onetime dean of Harvard Law School, as a member of the Federal Trade Commission under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME, Aug. 9) Landis appeared in a Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty on charges of failing to file federal income-tax returns on $360,000, which he earned from 1956 to 1960. It was not, he insisted, that he had intended to be a tax cheater. It was just that...
...Government service under three Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis built an image as a relentless reformer. "He cuts, thrusts and slashes at everything in sight," a friend of his once said. "There's no fooling around with that...
...machinery, this month will start up a new hydraulics plant in Glenrothes, Scotland. It is expanding the product line of Aircraft Radio Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary in Boonton, N.J., to include radios for all size airplanes. Last year the company bought out a propeller maker, Dayton's McCauley Industrial Corp. Foreign sales accounted for 19% of Cessna's private-plane airplane sales in 1960, and it expects even bigger foreign sales in the years ahead. To cash in on this market, Cessna last year bought a 49% interest in France's Avion Max Holste, which makes...
...Government," have long counted among Washington's most notorious messes-entangled in red tape, beset by lobbyists, tainted with scandal, and years behind on their work. Within days of his election John F. Kennedy appointed crusty New York Lawyer (and sometime dean of Harvard Law School) James McCauley Landis to look into the mess. Landis brought to the task plenty of firsthand experience in the regulatory-agency mazes. Back in New Deal days, he was a Federal Trade commissioner, then a Securities and Exchange commissioner, then SEC chairman (succeeding Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jack's father). Under Harry Truman...