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JAMES M. LANDIS, brilliant Roosevelt "brain truster" and chairman of the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission, will return to Harvard next September to become the new "boss" of many of the teachers that started him on his successful law career. Three weeks ago Harvard's Pres. James Bryant Conant announced that Mr. Landis had accepted the appointment as dean of the Crimson's famed law school to succeed equally famed Roscoe Pound...
Appointed, James McCauley Landis, 37, chairman of the Federal Securities & Exchange Commission, protege of Brain Truster Felix Frankfurter; to be dean of the Harvard Law School, succeeding Roscoe Pound; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Brain Truster Landis was considered to have one of the keenest legal minds in the nation. He helped draw up the Securities Act and the Exchange Control Act and later became chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. While in Washington he was one of the closest and most trusted of the President's advisers
...money-since General American controlled Southwestern. Mr. Milton was unable to satisfy the Committee that there had been no pressure applied by Equity Corp. to make Southwestern make the $2,400,000 loan. Equity's profit in the deal was $425,000. Of the excursion of Investment Truster Milton and his associates into General American, old Congressman Sabath snapped: "They were not speculators. They were sure shot boys." Cried Wisconsin's Congressman Thomas David Patrick O'Malley about apparent discrepancies in testimony: "I think there is perjury going on . . . and, by God, I'm going...
...delegation at the peace conference is that of the U. S. It includes, however, more supernumeraries than potent workers. It includes "The Honorable'' Alexander F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen so that labor will not feel left out; Adolf A. Berle Jr., former brain-truster, because he wanted to go and had earned the right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science...