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President Conant, who was making a speaking tour in the West, cut it short in order to return to Cambridge in time for the Conference and all participants will gather at a banquet in Adams House this evening to hear him and William L. Ransom, Ex-President of the American Bar Association, and Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor give addresses...
Leverett Saltonstall '14, prominent Massachusetts lawyer and legislator, will open the ceremonies at the first luncheon on Friday, to be held at the Union. For the banquet, which will take place in the Adams House dining hall, William L. Ransom, noted New York lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association, will share the speaking honors with President Conant. At the final plenary session, where the work of the Conference is to be summed up and coordinated, Adolphe A. Berle, Jr. '13, New York City Chamberlain and one of the original group of "brain-trusters," will hold the floor...
Also a lawyer of distinction, Mr. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential campaign in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission...
...contemporary fiction. Despite the high rhetoric of the verse, and the crisp, business-like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which one may be disposed to doubt. The chief character is Michael Ransom, a young archaeologist, who is hired by the British Government to explore the peak of a mountain called F6 by the geographers. Ostensibly the reason is the advancement of archaeology, but we are shown, not so clearly as might have been that the reason is imperialist. Empire is to advance...
...making contact difficult. . . . The incessant trailing of Dr. Mattson [father] on his visits around the city, by these same newspaper men. . . . Unwarranted and untruthful emphasis on the words "mansion" and "rich." . . . Daily radio broadcasts by individuals who drew from their imaginations. . . . The publication by some newspapers of the alleged ransom note secured improperly, in all probability through bribery...