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Sanderson was educated at Durham and Cambridge, lectured at various colleges until 1892, when he went to Oundle, then a small country grammar school. He was an authority on hydrostatics and electricity, but nothing human was alien to his interests...
...Garvan is a New York lawyer who came into national prominence through his administration of the office of Alien Property Custodian during and after the War. He was also Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. In 1919 he became President of the Chemical Foundation, organized by himself, Attorney General Palmer, and others, to take over a number of German dye and chemical patents seized by his office during the War. On account of this direct interest, the Foundation has been the target of much litigation from the companies whose property was confiscated, but it has not been dissolved...
...strengthened his position until he became a veritable institution of the city, fêted and acclaimed. The War came. Operatic things ceased to flourish, but Piccaver kept his place in popular and aristocratic favor. The U. S. declared war upon Germany; then upon Austria. And still Piccaver, an enemy alien, retained his prestige and vogue. During the after-War period he reigned a veritable King of Opera...
False Degrees. American universities swallow an alien spirit? the ultra-German type of intellectual specialization. The increasing vogue of higher degrees, obtained by soul-destroying research, blunts and narrows the teacher and keeps red-blooded young men away from the teacher-business...
...defense opened its case by calling to the stand A. Mitchell Palmer, former Alien Property Custodian whom Mr. Garvan succeeded, Mr. Palmer, Attorney General in 1919 and prominent candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination , in 1920, made a frontal attack on the claims which the Government set up in the dye case. It was during his term as Alien Property Custodian that the plans for the sale of the German patents were first made, although the sales were mainly completed by Mr. Garvan. Part of Mr. Palmer's testimony was his disclosure of the circumstances under which President Wilson...