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Third to say his say was Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem...
Chicago, often casually termed the "worst governed city in the world,'' approached, last week, another major cure experiment. Coming to a head was a plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this...
Loosely described as setting up a "super government," the plan actually remains indefinite concerning the authority to be invested in the business group and the extent to which their advice would necessarily be followed. Mr. Strawn himself described the scheme as "embryonic." John W. O'Leary, suggested as head of the new regime, said that "the whole thing" was in a "formative state." and James Simpson, Marshall Field president, scolded Mr. Strawn for making a "premature" announcement. Yet, loose and shapeless as the plan at present appears, the business government movement, perhaps immediately inspired by the desirability of "cleaning" Chicago...
...tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last week's meeting in Seattle, was Silas Hardy Strawn, eminent resident of "the crime capital of the U. S.," Chicago. Last winter, when a group of Chicagoans, who were really worried about Chicago's condition, asked Mr. Strawn to preside over a discussion meeting, he irritated many of them by pooh-poohing blandly: "In 36 years in Chicago...
Through the members of the Law School Faculty the student body comes in contact with the leading law teachers of the country, but it is only occasionally that they have the opportunity of hearing men of equal prominence in practice. This year the Society brought Silas H. Strawn, president of the American Bar Association, and Josiah Marvel, chairman of the Executive Council of the Law School. The appreciation of the student body for this service was shown by the fact that the lecture halls were filled each time, the total attendance being about...