Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...included four members of the first editorial staff. Joseph Henry Beale, now 75, longtime Harvard professor of law, surveys the conflicts of law during the last 50 years. Dean Emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School, John Henry Wigmore, 75, lightly recalls his early assignment to develop the Recent Cases and Notes departments. His prize Note, he says, was this quotation of Henry Lord Brougham in an 1846 British Parliamentary report on legal education...
...Mosta of the bestah," and other dubious coinages with which he has enriched the U. S. language, Bernie manages to chew his cigar with dignity but otherwise does himself less than justice. Columnist Winchell on the other hand gives a performance which indicates that among Producer Zanuck's recent screen discoveries he may rate as an attraction second only to the Dionne Quintuplets. Aided by previous acting experience, first in Gus Edwards' troupe of vaudeville children, later as a hoofer, Winchell's impersonation of himself is an improvement on Lee Tracy's similar role in Blessed...
...knew about it was what he saw in the newspapers. He said he understood the story originated in the foreign press. Nevertheless, suspicion remained that the great gold scare had been founded on more than fantasy. Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board in his recent FORTUNE article on how to control booms & depressions listed manipulations of gold prices as a likely tool...
...Harrison's recent campaign was apparently directed wholly at U. S. brokers handpicked .for their innocence. According to the instrument giving him his commission he was to have deposited to his account ?200 for each ?500 membership sold, a 40% fee. He at first announced that only 50 memberships would be allotted to New York, but last week it came out that he had authority to sell as many as he could...
...President will be on the same program with a former colleague and present political enemy, James M. Landis, Chairman of the S.E.C., one can see advantages both for the alumni and Harvard in this meeting. It will give interested graduates a chance to air their suspicions and suggestions about recent Harvard policy, to have their questions answered directly from the most omniscient source. Though they may not learn the actual pulse of Harvard, the President can and will feel the pulse of the alumni...