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

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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

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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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DeWald Max Baum and Maurcy Melvin Ball, the two Hstick-in-the-mudsu of Kent, are still the old pals they were while at Kent, and while I was down in New Orleans last month I met them. They control a large syndicate in that city, and Maurcy told me he married that true- blue blonde sweetie of his who always called for him while a student at Kent. ' Clinton Earl Callow, as President, now owns and controls the majority of the stock in the Hub. J Eldred A. Schooley is now President of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, and I am informed that Albert J. Jennings and Paul E. Johnson hold positions as Trust Officers of that corporation. Irwin I. Slan as President of the Idoubtit Clean- ing and Dyeing Corporation, the largest corporation of its kind in America, is using his legal knowledge to collect some of his bad debts, so I am informed. To Raymond P. Janosky we owe our utmost praise for bringing back light wines and beers. His eloquent speeches given throughout the country on nThe Joys of Liquorn has been the chief instrumentality in the passage of Amendment 27 to the United States Constitu- tion which has given us the right to drink and make light wines and beers. As a token of their gratitude and reward, the people of Cicero have elected him Chief of Police. Harry Levy is associated with his brothers David and Albert. They are the three Levys who recently de- fended Louis Casimir Kopacz, the manager of the Kopacz Beauty Reducing Corporation, who was sued for breach of Warranty. He guaranteed to Joseph J. Grish, the plaintiff fand one of Chicago's Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, as you of course knowj, that he, Kopacz, could make Grish lose twenty pounds in twenty days. Grish was represented by Fred Rohde and Victor Kozelka, the inseparable twin law partners of your city. Theodore G. Remer, by the will of D. Auerbach, received a life estate in D. Auerbach 8 Co., candy manufacturers, and he has recently perfected a sugarless candy called the Jaffe Bar, named for Louis Jaffe who successfully defended Remer in a suit brought for viola- tion of the Pure Food Laws in the manufacture of this candy. .48