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Saturday, the varsity moves to Nassau for a league game with Princeton...
Legal Career: Graduated from the Georgetown University law school in 1920. In 1939, he joined in forming the firm of Hall. Robinson & Hogan in Oyster Bay. Highly successful in the law, he became surrogate (probate judge) of New York's Nassau County last January...
Political Career: Started in 1926 as a G.O.P. campaign worker, moved on to serve in the New York assembly, became Nassau County's sheriff, went to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939 to serve until this year. As a Congressman, he introduced few bills, made few speeches, concentrated on hard, effective committee work. From 1947 through last year, he was chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He managed to stay out of the bitter nomination battle .between Taft and Eisenhower, bustled around the convention hall in Chicago wearing one of those buttons proclaiming: "I like everybody." When...
Dwight Eisenhower and other top-echelon Republicans last week agreed on a successor to G.O.P. National Chairman Charles Wesley Roberts. Their choice: New York's Nassau County Surrogate Leonard Wood Hall, 52, a tall, bald, former U.S. Representative (1939-52), and onetime chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (an experience that would be valuable for the national chairman in the 1954 congressional elections...
Princeton recently received the personal papers of James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense. The papers, composing documents, manuscripts, and diaries are in Nassau's Firestone Library...