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...last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale's subject is "Jurisdiction for Divorce"; Professor Williston's, "Consideration...
Recipient of last week's milestone was Joseph V. Ledwinka, 64, Vienna-born chief engineer of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia), makers of automobile and railroad equipment (see p. 49). The company sent him to Washington to be photographed receiving his papers from the hand of Conway Peyton Coe, young Commissioner of Patents. Engineer Ledwinka was not excited by the event. This was the 248th U. S. patent he has received since, in 1899, he invented "a means of propulsion of vehicles by electricity...
Died. Joseph Maria Urban, 61, famed Vienna-born architect and stage designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born Jew whose name shines brightest in the most famed law school of the U. S., had written a law. The President had signed it. And last week every firm of corporation lawyers in the land, including nearly all the cleverest pupils of Harvard's Professor Frankfurter, sidetracked most of their other business to find a way to finance U. S. industry without disrupting the existing financial system. They could not; their professor had outsmarted them ("with diabolical brilliance''); and some-were vexed...
...short feature story in the New York American, Vicki Baum, Vienna-born German novelist, playwright of Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution...