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...banker, onetime (1925-29) Representative, onetime (1928-30) secretary of the Republican National Committee. Republican members: William Edward Best, Pittsburgh lawyer, president of the U. S. Building & Loan League; Dr. John Matthews Gries. Ohio economist, onetime (1921-28) chief of the Commerce Department's building & housing division. Democratic members: Nathan Adams, president of First National Bank of Dallas; Henry Morton Bodfish of Chicago, executive director of U. S. Building & Loan League. In the House, before he was retired by the late Dwight Whitney Morrow in the 1930 Senate contest, Mr. Fort specialized in agricultural legislation, fancied himself as an urban...
...brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
Austrian-born, had the endorsement of such U. S. Supreme Court lights as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who mar ried Mr. & Mrs. Frankfurter. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1906, Felix Frankfurter served as an assistant U. S. attorney in the south ern district of New York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. In 1917-18 he was confidential assistant to Secretary of War Baker. Considerable notoriety attached itself to Professor Frankfurter as a result of his sympathy for Nicola...
...Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
Concluding a six-week visit to the U. S. (TIME, May 2), Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," set sail for England with 15 members of his "First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone? Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone...