Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of the Editor, Briton Hadden, seemed almost a personal loss. I certainly want you to put my name down for one of the books which you intend to publish about...
Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...
...With the name of the Smithsonian Institution to conjure guards and secretaries, a polite book agent worked his way to the presence of Chief Justice Taft. The Smithsonian Institution, related the book agent, was preparing a 12-volume survey of Science. The first edition was to be strictly limited to 875 copies. Only 875 world leaders, like Mr. Taft, would be permitted to purchase those sets. Each set would carry the owner's name. Mr. Taft would be aiding the Smithsonian Institution by buying a set. The price was only...
...book publishers replied with prompt asperity that the Institution directors had their wits about them when they signed the contract, that the Smithsonian's scientific writers were receiving $47,000 pay for their efforts and the Institution, for merely lending its scientists and its name, would reap $43,750 on the first edition alone; when the second edition (at $150) is offered the general public, royalties would be enormous...
Despite Mr. Young's announcement, however, prophets in political circles refuse to omit his name from the list of candidates for the assistant attorney generalship, for he has long been recognized as one of the leading supporters of President Hoover as well as one of the nation's leading lawyers. After being graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and from the Law School in 1911, he was admitted to the bar and has been held one of the leading members. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University from 1922 to 1928, and has given almost...