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...with the monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation of the A. L. I. signalized "to the world that laissez faire in law is going or has gone the way of laissez faire in economics...
...Nathan Lynn Bachman, junior Senator from Tennessee who died of heart disease in Washington (TIME, May 3), was last week laid to rest in his native Chattanooga. His funeral was attended by a host of friends from Washington and all over Tennessee. The assemblage was not only sorrowful. It had some of the exhilaration of an oldtime Irish wake, and the chief intoxicant was politics. In hotel lobbies, even in the church, mourners peered at their fellows and whispered in little groups. "Who is So-&-So backing?" "There's Such-&-Such-what does he want?" The Chattanooga News with...
...Governor Browning, elected last autumn with the support of Boss Edward Hull Crump of Memphis (TIME, Aug. 17), had had his own eye on Senator Bachman's seat, which was occupied by Cordell Hull until he moved into the Cabinet. Gordon Browning, in fact, lost the seat to Nathan Bachman in the primaries of 1934. Knowing that the public does not like a Governor who resigns in order to be appointed to the Senate, he firmly announced last week that he would not take...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...Died. Nathan Lynn Bachman, 58, Tennessee's junior Democratic Senator, appointed in 1933 when Cordell Hull was drafted for the Cabinet and twice reelected, onetime (1918-24) Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court; of heart disease; in Washington. He played football nine seasons at Southwestern (Presbyterian), Washington & Lee and Central universities, joked that he had been expelled from all three...