IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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tary of the Navy, Loren Bush Rockey as Attorney-General, Arthur F. Evans as Secretary of the Interior, Joseph Frank Kula as Secretary of Commerce and Louis Bettel- heim as Secretary of Labor. It is interesting also to know that Francis J. Higgins, whom I pleasantly recall drew all the profes- sors' pictures during the various classes, is now draw- ing a different sort of pictures. He is the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department and has control over that branch of the Treasury Department. He told me the other day that his legal knowledge certainly serves him well in his present office. Robert Mendelson is Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and some of his assistants are Aaron H. Cohn, Jack Baskin, Ralph F. Himmelhoch, John E. O. Heinrich and William H. Hauk. Some of our legal luminaries are justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Among them are Joseph J. Brandes, F. Allan Minne, William H1 Short, Paul William Pretzel, Edward F. Rodgers and John P. McGoorty, Jr. The other two associate justices are Harvard alumni. Of course you know that one of our former nProfsH is Chief Justice. The recent decision which Chief Justice Edward M. Bullard handed down in the famous case of Albert B. Fritzshal vs. Walter N. Murray regarding certain stocks which Murray as Attorney- General of the State of Illinois had brought suit on to declare void, and which Fritzshal declared deprived him of his property without due process of law, is the topic of the day in Washington at this time. The skill with which the Chief Justice handled the question will be remembered during long years to come. To turn a bit from the more or less public side of life to the private, I note by the New York Times that S. Eugene Kliefield, who has gained fame in his legal work for the theatre interests, has, as attorney for Peggy Joyce, procured for her, her thirteenth divorce, this time from our own Class President, James Clark Smith, millionaire attorney of Tampa, Florida. I under- stand Jimmy plans to go to Africa with Norman Gerlach, Bernard Hoban and Axel A. Hofgren to hunt wild chickens. The three latter named legalitees are associated together 46

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0112155 Hgrupheng 0Bffir:e nf the Srcrriatg uf ,Stain Washington, D. C. May Third 1945 Hon. Kelley A. Loy, Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Grant Park at 10th Street, Chicago, Illinois. My dear Kelley: It has been a long time since We have been to- gether and talked over old times. I have been wanting to write you many times, but my work as Secretary of State in President Clair Willits Furlong's cabinet, has taken up practically all my time. Since Clair's elec- tion to the Presidency of the United States and my asso ciation in Washington, I have had an opportunity to renew some of our mutual acquaintances of Kent, as a great number of them live right here in Washington or their business takes them to Washington frequently. Just this noon I had lunch with Earl Victor Brown Didn't he have a smashing victory in his recent election to the Vice-Presidency of the United States? Of course Clair didn't forget his old classmates when he became President, for his cabinet is composed Wholly of Kent alumni. In addition to Earl and myself, the cabinet includes Frank O. Bidwell as Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Edward Beach as Postmaster-General, Robert T. Luce as Secretary of Agriculture, Julius H. Selinger as Secretary of War, Robert W. Qualey as Secre 45'

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in a large law partnership in Texas under the name of Hofgren, Gerlach and Hoban. During the summer months Hofgren, Gerlach and Hoban generally go to some HNo Man's Landu for the purpose of gratifying their hobby of hunting. V You remember Samuel L. Bullas? He, I understand, is Chief Counsel for the Yellow Cab with Casimir S. Cherpeck, John Church and Alfred E. Roth as his assistants. - Francis H. Madden and Clarence E. Zadek are both married and have been for many years. They are in part- nership in the practice of law in Cicero. I understand Lewis C. Miller is Mayor of Aurora and that Frank Leslie Paul is Corporation Counsel of Aurora. ' Lawrence J. West is now in charge of the Inter- state Radio Board, with Joseph F. Sheen as his very able assistant. Jack Lascelles, our famous politician, is governor of New York and Robert E. Lenington as Mayor of New York City is causing a sensation. You recall Guilford R. Windes, the expounder of the law at Kent during his college days. He married the Latin teacher to whom he was engaged and at present is Ambassador to Argentina, South America. While in Washington last month, Windes informed me that Carlton B. Waller, Kent's fashion plate, married a wealthy Buenos Aires girl Cthis being his third bridej and that he now lives and practices law in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A I was surprised to see Charles C. Towle, Chief Counsel for the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, who in- formed me that Nicholas Scholz, Hugh M. Simborg and Paul J. Coleman were associated with him. Harry Stark, Benjamin Mark and Emanuel Morris are practicing law together in Langert, Indiana, the town named after Eli David Langert, who founded it and who is now its Mayor. X Besides having a big law practice in Baltimore, Harold T. Huber is the owner of the D-Bay-T Radio Sta- tion in the aforesaid city. 47