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...dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become counsel in the bank's liquidation...
Last week the critics jumped for his neck as one man. The Oxford Union passed a resolution condemning Dr. Buchman's proposal. In the House of Commons the Member for Oxford University, Humorist A. P. Herbert, urged the Government to deny incorporation under that name, since the "natural inference" that the Group is related to the University "is not justified by the facts." Finally, without making it public, the University's governing body lodged a protest with the Board of Trade-which announced that all the protests were being considered. Dr. Buchman drew his neck in again, said...
Born in 1895, in Muenster, Westphalia, he was educated at the Universities of Munich, Strassburg, Muenster, and Bonn, receiving a Doctor of Economics degree from Bonn in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he was on the Western Front as an officer in the German Army. As a member of the Centrist party, he was elected to the Reichstag for the first time in 1924, and in 1929 became head of his party in the Reichstag...
Gilkey garnered 217 votes to outdistance his seven rivals in the race for the presidency. Active in P. B. H. activities, he has served as a member of the Freshman Committee, chairman of the Speakers Committee, and as a member of the Senior Advisory Committee. Quimby, runner-up with 117 votes, is chairman, of the Mission Committee...
After losing to Lehman in the 1984 gubernatorial contest, Moses was appointed to his present task of coordinating the city park and parkway systems by Mayor La Guardia. He is also head of the Triborough Bridge and Henry Hudson Parkway Authorities, and a member of the New York World's Fair Commission...