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...Services Rendered (by William Somerset Maugham; Sam H. Harris, producer). A novel in shortcuts, this Maugham play deals with an English family and its friends. The War has been over 15 years, but its wounds still fester. Father Ardsley is a solicitor, a portly British character of the type that sings carols on Christmas cards. He has a wife, who he does not know is about to die of an incurable disease, and three daughters. Lois (Jane Wyatt) is pretty, selfish and extremely attractive to a rich older man. Ethel is bitterly disappointed in an earthy, loutish farmer whom...
...daily newspaper as required by the city charter, but in the city's own weekly City Bulletin. Last week Ohio's Supreme Court upheld her. The ruling invalidated only the sewer ordinance, but Cincinnati's entire General Code had been enacted in 1928 and the City Solicitor foresaw other protests...
Official announcement of the appointment of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne professor of Administrative Law, as Solicitor-General of the United States, is expected in the next few weeks, it was learned here yesterday. According to reliable sources, President Roosevelt has definitely slated Frankfurter for the post and will announce the choice before the Supreme Court adjourns...
When approached on the legal questions involved in the sale of beer in the University dining halls, E. L. Toomey, solicitor of Cambridge, said that no definite statement could be made until the Massachusetts Legislature acts next week. "If the legislature passes a law legalizing the sale of 3.2 per cent beer throughout the State," he said, "and if it includes no clause permitting a local option, the Cambridge prohibition ordinance will be automatically nullified and there won't have to be any city voting on the matter." The solicitor stated further that if Cambridge were given the opportunity...
...government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...