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When Willkie got back from France, where he spent several months defending court-martialed soldiers from army discipline, he got a job in the Firestone legal department at Akron, later joined the law firm of Mather & Nesbitt and became one of the attorneys for Northern Ohio Power & Light (now Ohio Edison Co.) and other "vested intersts" (the Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue...
...Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor who became proficient at catering, is the White Housekeeper: orders meals for the President (he loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...
JOHN GUILD NESBITT...
Cover figures are chosen for timeliness, but Subscriber Nesbitt errs if he supposes that each is supposed to be "The Man of the Hour." When Dr. Schuschnigg was chosen, TIME'S editors could not anticipate that he would become so much more timely that Adolf Hitler would find it necessary to enter Austria...
...Kingston, Pa., in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Nurse Georgia De Frane was applying a solution to the leg wounds of Miner John Lapore. 45, when he suddenly bit off the tip of her nose...