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...thought he might be permitted at least a small crow. Older & sportier than the run of undergraduates, Fred Healy had a legendary good time at the University of Illinois. When he left there in 1914 he sold automobile accessories for a while, in 1917 became a Country Gentleman ad solicitor out of the Chicago office. He was the first to suggest that Curtis set up headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head of that office in 1925 and originated $10,000,000 worth of business (70% automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer...
...instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined it in 1896 as a solicitor, Mr. Harrison nominated to succeed himself his operating vice president, Ernest Eden Norris. The election took about the same length of time as a flag whistle and the southeast's largest rail system got as its fourth president its first operating...
...Noon: Very little let-up for lunch. Freshman naivete note; Solicitor: "Friend, you've got to have a pressing contract: can't get along without one." Freshman to his father: "Do my clothes really look as wrinkled as all that...
...group three Federal Circuit Court judges: Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...
...Corbit's hospital superior asked advice of a Philadelphia lawyer, Assistant City Solicitor G. Coe Farrier, who has six children, one of whom he delivered himself because no doctor was handy. Lawyer Farrier believed that the husband's consent to autopsy was not essential in this emergency. A common pleas judge, Harry E. Kalodner, onetime reporter for the Philadelphia Record, concurred. Judge Kalodner called in the press to hear the following opinion...