Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional opportunities," i.e., assigned law cases, from Tammany judges whose duty it was to appoint a defender, receiver or referee. The Smith son-in-law, Lawyer Francis J. Quillinan (lately married to the Warrior's daughter Catherine) was shown to have received 22 cases. The unfairness of the thing was that the number of cases assigned to other young lawyers was not mentioned for comparison. Nor was the ability of the young lawyers in question evaluated. The embarrassing feature for the Smiths was that of the several judges who made the assignments. two (the Hons. Joseph M. Proskauer...
Majestic, on Monday "Hold Every thing". A new musical comedy by the combination which produced "Good News". Promises to be good...
...fashion to define Harvard College swiftly, for Freshman instruction, and this is an impossible thing. But in the days when the epigram ruled the drawing-room someone said: "Boston is not a city, it is a state of mind." In its pristine application the truth is a waning one, perhaps, but refitted to that other shoulder of the New England tradition, Harvard College, it somes nearer to a summary than any epigram should...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...
...aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear now is that a politico-economic condition might insidiously arise to throttle them again. An effort to prevent such a thing is the $1,000 prize award announced this week by the New York Jewish Tribune. Its judges will give the money to the U. S. Jew or non-Jew who will have contributed most to the interests of U. S. Jews during the year ending...