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56 Brief 1 (1960-1961)

handle is hein.journals/briephid56 and id is 1 raw text is: THE BRIEF Volume 56, Number 1 Fall, 1960 Phi Delta Phis in the News (See Photos on Cover) Law is sometimes regarded as a somewhat narrow field of operation, but persons trained in the law obtain prominence in widely diverse areas. We present three current examples from politics, education, and civic endeavor. Henry M. Jackson (Ballinger '35) Democratic National Chairman, Senator from Washington Americans are fond of committees, regardless of size, shape or texture. They will form one at the drop of an argument and people them with more chairmen than chairs. When at a loss, they have even invented that delightful self-proliferating device, the Com- mitee on Committees. Amidst all this, stands one committee con- ceded by friend and foe alike to be the most spectacular, diverse, uproarious of them all-the Democratic National Committee. And as its chairman is a man described by the London Observer as meticulously courteous, tactful and not at all temperamental . . . capable of disagreeing without offending, of fighting without turn- ing apponents into enemies. He works perhaps harder than any other man in the Senate. Senator Henry M. Jackson, a bachelor, has never been defeated since he first ran for political office (Snohomish County, Wash., prosecutor) in 1938 at the age of 26. He was elected to Congress in 1940 and was re-elected five times, including 1946, when he survived as the sole Democrat in the House of Representatives from the Pacific Northwest. In 1952 he was elected Senator, and in 1958 received a re-election vote of 70% of those cast. A graduate of Stanford and the University of Washington School of Law, he became a member of Ballinger Inn at the latter institution.