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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58 this month, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Manhattan); onetime (1917-25) Johns Hopkins professor, the Pictorial Review's $5,000 prize for "The most distinctive contribution to American life in the fields of Arts, Letters or The Sciences" in 1928. Only woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sabin directs the testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercule bacillus to discover their separate effects in order to analyze each factor of the disease itself...
...backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped solve her financial troubles.* Since the first season her project has paid...
There are five notes, written by the editors of the Review, several of which are of more than passing interest to students of law. The first concerns the recent case of MacAllen v. Massachusetts. The decision of this case by the United States Supreme Court is of great importance to the taxing systems of the states; the note gives a detailed analysis of the decision...
...Presence of a Party" and "Death Duties Affecting Martial Property Rights," while the fifth, discussing "The Rights of Privacy Today," has a history concerning the Law School. Thirty-nine years ago, Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court and C. G. Warren, wrote an article in the Law Review which spoke of the right to privacy. This had great influence in recognizing a new right, and affected the growth of the law. The note reviews decisions on points since the article was written 39 years...
There are also two notes in the new legislation department of the Review. The first is entitled "The Delegates of Discretion in Massachusetts Licensing Statutes," while the second comments upon "The Uniform Bank Collection Cotle...