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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appomattox Day, April 9, 1890, when Benjamin Harrison was the seventh Republican President of the U. S., two young Chicago lawyers named Robert McMurdy and Lester Coffeen opened a Republican social club in a three-story white stone house facing Lake Michigan. Last week to old Lawyer McMurdy, 77, and many another stanch Republican member came the news that the Hamilton Club, for four decades one of the most famous political fraternities in the U. S., was about to close its doors...
Finally in 1906, after tremendous persuasion of stubborn elements, he won enough support to set up a division of education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1920 he reached another mile-stone when the division was separated and a Faculty of Education came into being. An endowment of two million dollars enabled the bringing forth of the Graduate School of Education...
...employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week, by no means reveals Associate Justice Hugo Black's exact philosophical locality. Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime dean of Columbia University Law School and Attorney General under Calvin Coolidge, once reportedly slated (by President Hoover) for the Chief Justiceship that Charles Evans Hughes surprisingly accepted in 1930, was raised to the bench in 1925. His liberalism, mostly acquired thereafter, contains more tolerance than militancy. Humanitarian Benjamin Nathan...
...most conventions is electing new officers. Last week, I. B. A. chose to succeed President Hall a distinguished, white-haired Bostonian with a gentle voice named Francis Edward Frothingham, vice president of Coffin & Burr, Inc. since 1916. Born in Brooklyn in 1871, President Frothingham investigated utilities for years for Stone & Webster, was head of the public utilities division of War Finance Corp. An ardent yachtsman and traveler, he lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass, with his wife and daughter, enjoys riding, being vice president of the Boy Scouts of Boston. Said he of the utilities industry last week: "Shall the Government...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...