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...generation must necessarily concern itself, then the schools of law must undertake something more far-reaching. As some of the most eminent professors of law themselves have declared, the law schools must take on the function of adjusting the law itself to the changing needs of a confused, complex, ill-balanced social order...
...bank on the South" was the slogan with which Rogers Clark Caldwell reared his dreams of economic empire. In Caldwell & Co., his Nashville banking house, his dreams achieved the reality of a $100,000,000-a-year-investment business and the control of a complex, pyramided financial structure which embraced $600,000,000 of banks, insurance companies, newspapers, realty and industrial concerns. When the whole enterprise crashed (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930) the reverberations sent banks toppling, stripped thousands of depositors of their money, brought grief and ruin to investors from Kentucky to Arkansas, even rumbled into Tennessee's capital...
Indian Ulsters. British officials like to call the complex states of Bengal and Punjab the Ulsters of India. There the pugnacious Moslems are in actual majority, but most of the money, most of the educated classes, nearly all of the newspapers, are Hindu. In the Punjab, whence come the bearded fighting Sikhs of the Indian army and police force, the Moslem peasants are hopelessly in debt to crafty Hindu moneylenders. The MacDonald commission has solved the problem of the Indian Ulsters to its own satisfaction by not giving the Moslems a statutory majority in either province but protecting their rights...
...novel. "At least it is more a novel in that it 'swerves less from that form than from any other. There is a person who tells it and who says: I; there are plenty of characters. . . . And from the point of view of composition it is so complex that it develops very belatedly when all the 'themes' have begun to combine. You can see that all this has nothing very engaging about it." A series of interrelated stories of interrelated characters, it is linked and bounded by the stream of time meandering through it, on which the gradually aging narrator...
...Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...