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Last week Miss Hall's publishers-the old and distinguished firm of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.-appealed against suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
Conscience-stricken Deputies of the Republic passed a law, last week, providing that hereafter no member of Parliament may serve as a director, officer or executive in any financial, industrial or commercial firm...
...disillusioned eyes of practicing lawyers, it is the President of the Harvard Law Review at whom they cast glances not appraising but accepting, not supercilious but nearly reverential. Enviable is the position of the President of the Harvard Law Review; he may practically choose what potent law firm he will serve after graduation. Similarly Presidents of law reviews and journals at other law schools achieve in varying degrees the quasi-Olympian privilege of being able to choose, instead of having...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...
...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...