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Charles Warren, former Solicitor-General of the United States and at present a member of the Board of Overseers, stated at a recent meeting of the Harvard Club of Washington that in the last analysis democracy simply amounts to "a willingness to be interested in the other fellow's point of view." He was referring to recent attacks made upon the House Plan by certain students to the effect that it breeds snobbishness and petty cliques. Mr. Warren went on to say that democracy can't be imposed upon anyone; that the most the University can do is to provide...
Whizzing through little Rockville, Conn., with a companion, a maid, and a chauffeur, Nora lasigi Bullitt, pretty debutante daughter of onetime (1912-13) U. S. Solicitor-General William Marshall Builitt, was brought up short by a traffic policeman, led off to police court. There the policeman announced that she had been passing intersections at 65 m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering...
...Kingsley Wood Britain has found its perfect Postmaster-General. A solicitor and Member of Parliament, he has all his life stood four-square for Health, Education, Housing and Insurance. By go-getting advertising for the telephone and telegraph systems, which belong to His Majesty's Post Office, he had built up by December 1933 a record profit...
...Major Rowlandson made a last effort to pay off his creditors. He went to his solicitor, James Collins, tried again without success to borrow money on an invention for cutting steel...
Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...