Word: seavey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Member of the Faculty of Law since 1927, Professor Warren A. Seavey '02 has been appointed to the third oldest endowed chair in the Law School, the Bussey Professorship of Law. The Professor was dean and professor at the University of Nebraska Law School from...
...last week President Roosevelt had a long talk with Clyde Leroy Seavey, acting chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Administrator John M. Carmody of the Rural Electrification Administration and Ervin E. King, Master of the Washington State Grange, in whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story...
Young Curley resigned under protest of certain statements made in one of his courses by Warren A. Seavey, professor of Law, which he considered derogatory to his father. His decision was not altered when Professor Seavey acepted entire responsibility for the affair...
...Harvard Law School classroom a student asked Professor Warren A. Seavey if he did not believe that Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson would have soon been defeated had Chicago newspapers fearlessly exposed his tarnished regime. Replied Professor Seavey: "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor of Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor...
...seems also rather small of Mr. Curley if he forces his namesake to resign from the Law School. More slanderous remarks have been made about a greater public official than was Mr. Curley, yet the does not see cause for his sons to withdraw from Cambridge. Professor Seavey's letter of apology and acceptance of the entire blame should end the affair at once. In addition, his hope that the resigned-to-be will return marks him as a true Boston gentleman, if not a better politician than Mr. Curley...