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...Franklin Roosevelt was pleased to recall that they had a mutual friend in Felix Frankfurter, whom Archie MacLeish encountered at Harvard Law School, which graduated him in 1919 with top honors. For FORTUNE in 1935 he wrote The Case Against Roosevelt, unearthing from Massachusetts' constitution the basic American tenet (a prime plank of the Republican platform in 1936) that U. S. government shall be government of laws, not of men. A successful lawyer who turned poet (in 1923) as calculatedly as some lawyers turn politician, who made good at it by winning a Pulitzer Prize (Conquistador...
...Keefe case, upholding the right of States to tax Federal salaries and abandoning John Marshall's preachment that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," represented the Court's major doctrinal departure for the term. It altered the nation's basic tax structure, opened the way for taxation of income from Government securities. Last fortnight the Court clinched this point by decreeing that judges' salaries, too, are taxable. Further, it laid open to multiple taxation private fortunes reposing in more than one State at death...
...Approval of AAA II in the tobacco marketing case was another basic shift effected by Mr. Roberts & friends. By distinguishing between the production of farm goods and their marketing, and declaring the latter a proper sphere for Federal control, the historic commerce clause of the Constitution was liberalized and the ancient precedent of Hammer v. Dagenhart abandoned-one of three landmarks which Janizary Tom Corcoran vowed to erase before leaving Washington...
...counting up the strength of sides, military men talk about divisions, the basic, more or less self-contained units which generals add or subtract from armies. In fact divisions figure in their calculations as building blocks figure in the architectural dreams of children. Divisions are only roughly equal in size and strength-in France and Russia there are 18,000 men to a division, in Germany, 15,200; in Poland and England, 12,000. Mechanized divisions are even smaller, but their strength is computed in terms of tanks, armored cars, machine-guns...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1929, Harvard its Chemist James Bryant Conant in 1933. Rawboned President Conant, now 46, has proved a cautious, canny administrator. Arriving when Harvard was becoming stodgy and losing renowned old professors, Conant hired brilliant young teachers, jabbed a hypodermic into stodgy places, but made no basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins appeared headed for undisputed place as alltime All-American college president until he soured his faculty by trying to remake Chicago on a medieval pattern. Sour...