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Sidney Post Simpson, co-author for the Wickersham Commission of Report No. 12, on "The Cost of Crime," who has been for several years a member of the New York law firm of Hines, Rearick, Dorr, Travis and Marshall, has just been elected a Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School. He will at once take up the teaching of the law of equity and trusts, as the colleague of Professors A. W. Scott and Chafee...
...subject of the debate: "Resolved, That, in the interests of world prosperity, the war debts should be cancelled," selected by G. W. Wickersham, former United States Attorney General, and now chairman of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, will be opened by A. J. Irvine of Oriel College, Oxford, speaking for the affirmative. The negative side of the question, will be upheld by the next speaker, P. C. Reardon '32. To obviate the additional expense of shifting back and forth between speeches, and to accord with the split-argument nature of the debate, the next talker will be a Harvard...
...strange things. So, at least, thought the Republican friends of 73-year-old George Woodward Wickersham in Manhattan last week. Mr. Wickersham was born in Republican Pennsylvania. He joined the Republican law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He became Republican President Taft's Attorney General. As a Republican he helped to rewrite the New York State Constitution. He is a member of the National Republican Club. As a Republican he headed President Hoover's Law Observance & Enforcement Commission. Yet last week George Woodward Wickersham publicly endorsed a Socialist over a Republican for election to high public office...
...Republican nominee, had come into bad odor when it was discovered that he had hired Tammany influence in an attempt to sell one of his piers to the city at an exorbitant price. Deciding that Messrs. Levy and Carrington were both tarred with the same Tammany brush, Republican Wickersham bolted his party, plunked for Socialist Thomas thus...
Never has Socialist Thomas been elected to any public job. But the Wickersham endorsement heartened forlorn independents. Perhaps a political miracle might happen. On that basis the potent New York World-Telegram declared for Candidate Thomas in a stirring editorial, cartooned him as outrunning lame Col. Carrington. Tammany-burdened Mr. Levy. No other New York newspaper, however, would throw its support to what seemed doomed to be always a lost cause...