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

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Edmond L. Andrews, Jr., is Dean of Northwestern's Law School, as I am informed, and on the faculty of that college are John Szimics and Marcus L. Silver. James F. Wright, Ernest R. Smith and Felix E. Peterson are chief counsels for Marshall Field M Co. as you probably know. W Marion Berg-Bidderman, Alfred E. Williston, Emma B. Foley and John F. Wynkoop, together with James Bid- derman, are associated in the practice of law under the name of Bidderman-Williston-Foley-Wynkoop and Bidderman, which firm is counsel for the Nbergu of Simon, Ohio, the latter town being named in honor of Beatric Simon, multi-millionaire prosecuting attorney of Cincinnati County, who donated one million dollars for the erection of the Court House in Simon, Ohio. Miss Nancy M. Pflueger, the Bertha Bauer of yes- teryear, is now the speaker of the House and some of the Members in Congress are Harry H. Pollack of Idaho, Frank J. Prindiville of Indiana, Ruth Ilo Rowe of Illinois and Joseph Winter Townsend of North Dakota. Richard L. Sonnenschein, State's Attorney for Cook County, was visiting Harold John Ross in Washington. Mr. Ross is Ambassador to China. In this connection I might also mention that Kurt John Salomon is foreign minister to Palestine. ' Bruno E. Heinrich is trying to induce the Pope at Rome that all the people in the world should be of one faith. Heirick is President of the Atheists' Society of the Universe. , Leroy James Hanson, who early in June, 1926, mar- ried Mary Roche, was visiting Chester W. Kulp in Wash- ington last week. Mr. Hanson is Governor of Indiana. Kulp, on the other hand, is Comptroller of Currency. Leroy brought his children with him and When Comptroller Kulp took them to the mint, all the children asked for a sample. It looks as though Leroy has kept his promise. He told us while at Kent that it was his Qsecretj ambi- tion to Hmarry merry Mary.N Daniel A. Covelli by his practice at Kent of arguing with the instructors has acquired a pronounced knowledge of the art of oratory, and today, as you know, is considered in American History as a greater orator 49 '

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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

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than Daniel Webster. He has, to date, won every debate he has argued. Leslie Harold Klawans and Leonard Klopper are associated together in a law partnership. The members of this firm were instrumental in giving information leading to the conviction of the gang of criminals who have been terrorizing the South Shore and Gold Coast Districts in Chicago. I am informed Sydney Wolfe is literally Hcoiningn money as an expert on income tax matters. Robert G. Barney is also an income tax expert. I am informed Bob's fees are exorbitant, but then Bob's ambition al- ways was to become a big man financially. I note you stated in your former letter that Lloyd F. Arnold, Richard S. Bennett and Daniel A. Bernstein are all in private law practice and are leading attor- neys in Chicago. ' Louis S. Binkley, James S. Johnstone and William J. Kriz are general counsels for the Continental and Commercial National Bank which has recently merged with the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, which merger was perfected by the said three gentlemen named, on one side and Charles Bock, Martin Crane and James Gillespie as attorneys for the Illinois Merchants Trust Cdmpany. George Byron Baxter, I am informed, is President of the Chicago Real Estate Board and has made quite a name for himself in Chicago in real estate transactions. I understand further that William James Hogan is asso- ciated with Mr. Baxter in the real estate business. I was pleasantly surprised when I learned through Insurance Commissioner of Illinois Frank J. Gillespie that James M. Minow and Evart O. Ostberg both were in the insurance business and each was the president of the corporation by which he was employed. . Your comments on your Domestic Relation instructor were noted with interest. I hardly thought that Philip Paulson would go in for teaching. I was even more sur- prised to learn that John Edward Roche, Philip's team- mate, is teaching criminal law at Kent. I read with interest the famous closing statement or argument to the jury that Joseph C. Stastny made in the even more famous Louis Gelfand vs. Leo E. Moonan 50