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...guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared in October 1887, and since then there have been 48 others. Average circulation of the reviews: 1,414-the largest (Harvard's) 4,400, the smallest 375-with students accounting for 18% of the total. Some Harvard Law Review editors who have made good: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, retiring SEChairman James McCauley Landis, Morgan Partner Seymour Parker Gilbert, Harvard's Felix Frankfurter...
Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...
...foreign trade and international payments for 1936. To foreigners the U. S. sold $2,453,000,000 worth of goods, 8% more than the year before. From foreigners the U. S. bought goods worth $2,419,000,000, an increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more in freight and shipping charges than it took in, the net of remittances was against...
...first white man to enter Nevada passed on through. That was in 1775. Most important people who have entered Nevada in the 162 intervening years have also passed on through. Last week in Carson City, smallest of State capitals (population 1,596), Nevada's Assembly seconded its Senate in a resolution designed to attract more substantial people to Nevada more permanently...
...unusually fine casting, even in the smallest parts, and a leisurely yet precise pace that never drags, which give the picture its charm. There is a sort of civilized restraint throughout, even in the sense of inevitability that drives the picture on. Mizzi doesn't need to rouge garishly and wiggle her hips to show that she's free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional...