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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor, Marion County Review) Marion, Ohio
...teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however, he knew the ropes and all was clear sailing. Working on the side, he finished Columbia second in his class and editor of its Law Review in 1925, easily landed a job with the crack Wall Street law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. Planning to return to Yakima in two years, he set to work learning the fascinating intricacies of Wall Street finance and law, meanwhile teaching at Columbia on the side...
...University of Chicago, he dubbed Douglas "the outstanding professor of law of the nation," offered him $20,000 to go to Chicago. Douglas refused because he wanted to complete his long studies in corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. A report he wrote on this subject in the Yale Law Review took the eye of Kennedy and Landis. Kennedy had never met Douglas and Landis knew him only slightly, but both were well aware of his record. In 1934, soon after the SEC got under way, Landis telephoned Douglas to come to Washington...
...because the army is the same as the Navy in Boston or Brooklyn, with the same characteristics off duty, it would be foolish to bring the names of countless innocent Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Stanford girls by mentioning the army. From the army one passes in review, to the hula in which one is told to watch the hands. The hands, the Waikiki beach boys claim, flashing their teeth in a smile, are very important...
...review of the musical opportunities offered to undergraduates must start with fulsome praise of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its five series of concerts. The Orchestra is an old institution and is at present at the peak of its powers, a condition which is largely due to its continued leadership by one man during the past thirteen years. That man is the energetic Rusian conductor Serge Koussevitzky who has become famous throughout the world for his brilliance and his interest in the moderns...