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...born. Father Coryell built a play pen in his office and took Junior to work. Every two hours he carried him home for feeding and a change. When Junior started to school, Father Coryell moved his office ten blocks to be nearby so Junior could drop in at recess and lunch periods. When Junior graduated from high school he was made a full partner in the business and given Checkbook No. 3 against the Coryell family account. Father Coryell and he then took a correspondence school course in law together...
Fortnight ago the Delaware General Assembly stopped the clock and stayed in session all night to finish up its year's work. Only break in a boisterous evening, typical of the closing hours of many a State Legislature, was a recess taken at 4 a.m. so that members could troop down through the deserted streets of Delaware's tiny capital (Dover) to see one of their number off on a late train to Manhattan. Next morning everyone slept late, went home happy that the session was over...
Next day, during a recess in the hearing before the great Green Case was adjourned for two weeks, two lawyers stood chatting in a smoke-filled anteroom with plump Surrogate Owen. Subject of the conversation was Mrs. Wilks's "day in court." Said the Surrogate: "The thing I was worried about was: If I cited her for contempt of court how would I get her up to Port Henry for a hearing? I was afraid I might have to take her my self...
...professional world" met to map strategy for a new venture: a law review. Suggested by a young graduate of Ohio's Oberlin College named John Jay McKelvey, the idea was elaborated by his fellow students Joseph Henry Beale, Julian William Mack and John Henry Wigmore. During the Christmas recess young Mr. McKelvey went to Manhattan and sold his idea to the late great Joseph Hodges Choate, one of the foremost U. S. lawyers of the day, who became the magazine's first subscriber...
Unable to compete in the Intercollegiate Swimming Meet at Minneapolis last weekend because of the tardiness of the University spring recess, eight members of the undefeated Crimson swimming team will enter the National A.A.U. Meet at New Haven, April...