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

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case. As counsel for Mr. Moonan, Adrian L. Lammers should have known that such a trust agreement as the one involved in the aforesaid case would not stand the test in any court. I think Judge Roderick A. Mette rightly decided the case. You probably are aware of the fact that Arthur A. Bernstein and Fred Fagenholz are in partnership together in the practice of law in Crown Point, Indiana, at which city Stafford T. Haberkorn is City Attorney. I knew Morris Haft would glean the athletic world, and I am glad that he won the election as President of the Illinois Athletic Club. Speaking of athletics, Con- gress has just passed a law creating a department known as the Interstate Swimming Department, which controls the rules and regulations of interstate contests, and of contestants sent from one state to another for the pur- pose of such contests. Vernon Tittle has been put in charge of this department. By way of dictum, I might say that I personally think Congress has gone beyond the bounds in passing this act over the,veto of the President. ' I understand J. Benjamin Cleaver is President of the New York Title and Trust Company, and that Eugene F. Englehard is Vice-President. So Ralph H. Haen was re-elected County Recorder! You remember Herman uMissouriH Hansman. He now presides over the World Court. I will never forgive Herman for the trick he played on me by running off with my Sioux Falls, South Dakota sweetheart. However, I understand they are very happy and the proud parents of six children. N Leo Bressler interests me now that he is the political Nbossn of the Republican Party. I suppose he and Arthur 0. Kiesgen, the Democratic Hboss,H frequently come to clashes. I understand that Paul E. Collins, William J. Collins and Thomas J. Courtney have formed a partnership and call themselves HThe Three Seize of Forest Park.N Alfred T. Donnellan, Mayor of Forest Park, tells me that they are doing a big real estate business in conjunction with their law practice. ' 51'

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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

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You remember Irwin B. Clorfene, the Vice-Presi- dent. He is now Dean of Harvard Law School. I met him and Chester F. Schmidt, the latter being Dean of the Princeton Law School, several weeks ago while in Prince- ton, New Jersey. I learned from them that William S. Brown was practicing law with Harry A. Lambert in Reno, Nevada, and that Stanley S. Krugman was Internal Revenue Collector of Boise, Idaho. E ' William T. Nenneman certainly runs a wonderful quiz course as I understand. I am informed he put William Parillo, Jr., through the bar last year. Nenneman stated that William Parillo, Sr., has acquired considerable wealth and is now contemplating retirement in the practice of law. Do you think Irving Earl Glickman will win out in the election for Circuit Court Clerk, or do you think his opponent, Arthur F. Gescheidle, will be the victor? Harold Goldberg lives in Paris, France, he being the American Consul in that country. I learned from Harold that Joseph C. Miller and wife are taking a journey through various parts of Europe, preparatory to Joe's taking up his newly-elected duties as Lieutenant- Governor of Illinois. Edward M. Byrd as Governor-General of the Philip- pine Islands is trying to get Congress to admit the Philippines into the Union. I understand that Frank L. Mohan, Byrd's assistant, is spending much of his time here in Washington in the hope of perfecting such a- negotiation. Mohan has had Representative Walter John Lally of Florida and Representative Marvin K. Herrington of New York to submit the bill for such legislation to the House. Marcus Levy and Jack Lieberman are practicing law together in Cairo, Illinois. I am informed they control a large syndicate also in that city. Do you suppose David Frank and Emil Schlan will perfect the negotiations which they are working at now in the House of Representatives of the State of Illi- nois, to introduce and have passed a bill consenting to the making of Cook County a separate state of the Union? I understand Byron E. Hayes as agent of the State of Illinois, who is a Representative from Illinois, as you know, will introduce this recommendation into Congress. 52 S 5