Word: relationships
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Felix Frankfurter is one of two U. S. Supreme Court Justices whose frankly close relationship with the White House is new in U. S. history. Wise, fecund Justice Frankfurter still supplies the New Deal with Happy Hot Dogs (example: brilliant young Henry Hart of Harvard's law faculty, who is working this summer in Mr. Jackson's Department of Justice). Anglophile Felix Frankfurter also continues to supply the President with advice; of late, their contact has become less & less formal, more & more personal and therefore more telling in its influence upon Roosevelt thinking and policy-both domestic...
...profitable risk, prejudice against them should cease. Atlanta's big Citizens & Southern National Bank handled 26,000 small loans totaling $7,000,000 last year, wrote off only $5,877. Said C. & S.'s assistant vice president, Lewis F. Gordon: "Consumer lending is bringing back the old relationship which the banker had with the individual in the small town...
More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt...
...from unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...
Carrying out its stated purposes to promote the welfare of Harvard and establish a "mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard and the alumni," the Association makes arrangements for the "happy observance of Commencement," officially represents the alumni body at ceremonials, assures the publication of an alumnus periodical, maintains headquarters in Cambridge for the service of Association members, and assumes numerous other responsibilities in connection with the University...