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...step, I would even say a small step, to the changes we need in this country. Mr. Nixon isn't the master, he's the servant--he's serving the same clients as when just before he became president he was a corporation lawyer in the same firm that employed Mr. Mitchell...
...Bankers Trust Co., one of the greatest figures in American financial history. Trubee Davison graduated from Yale, was an aviator in the War until injured, studied at Columbia Law School, became Chairman of the General Laws Committee of the New York legislature, is connected with the law firm of White & Case...
Dean Stone, whose resignation as Dean of the Columbia Law School takes effect at the end of the present college year, is a member of the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell of New York City. "He is a man of great integrity and ability," Professor Maguire continued, "And ranks among the highest in the American Bar. I think that the fact that President Coolidge chose a second member of the cabinet from New York State is of little consequence. Dean Stone is undoubtedly the best man for the position...
Died. Elijah Watt Sells, 66, famed public accountant, senior partner of the firm of Haskins & Sells, with branches in London, Paris, Havana, Shanghai. He served twice as President of the American Institute of Public Accountants, affected (in 1893) a revision of the accounting system of the U. S. Government. He was a member of the Union League Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, etc. His father, Elijah Sells, was auditor of the Treasury under President Lincoln...
...himself invented the word Kodak. The letter K always appealed to him for its firm and unyielding appearance; "after long meditation and concentration" the letters grouped themselves into the word KODAK...