A lawyer who was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1929. ERWIN N. GRISWOLD is a teacher und a judge of men whose opinion is widely respected in this country and in England. He has been Dean of the Harvard Law School and Langdell Professor of Law since 1950.
A Cleveland lawyer who has been a professor at the Harvard Law School since 1935 and its dean since 1916, ERWIN N. GRISWOLD gives us his appraisal of The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen. In recognition of her bock Mrs. Bowen is to receive the Henry M. Phillips Prize conferred by the American Philosophical Society for an outstanding contribution to American jurisprudence.
Dean of the Harvard University Law School, ERWIN N. GRISWOLD,who has made an extended study of Federal Taxation, reminds ns of the increasing activity on behalf of an amendment to the Federal Constitution which would limit the power of Congress to impose income, estate, and gift taxes to a maximum rate of 25 per cent. The effort was begun thirteen years ago under very different conditions from those which prevail today, and if enough state legislatures are acquiescent, this attractive but dangerous proposition might be brought to vole.