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1903 Milton Handler born October 8 to George and Raye Handler in New York City
1920 Milton Handler graduated from Boy's High in Brooklyn
1924 Graduated from Columbia College, English Major, Phi Beta Kappa
1926 Graduated from Columbia Law School, editor of Columbia Law Review, winner of Ordroneaux Prize
1926-27 Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, worked with Justice Stone on U.S vs. Trenton Potteries Co.
1927 Admitted to New York State Bar, appointed Assistant Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law
1928 Appointed Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law
1929 Spring - Resigned to practice with Chadbourne, Stanchfield, and Levy, Fall - Recalled to Columbia Law as Assistant Professor
1932 Married Marion W. Kahn on December 21
1933-34 Commuted to Washington as General Counsel to National Labor Board, served as special adviser to Department of Agriculture
1933-37 Research consultant, New York State Law Revision Commission
1935 Promoted to Associate Professor; Daughter, Carole Enid born
1937-48 Reorganized and served as President of New York Majestic Corporation (West Side Apartment Complex)
1938-40 Special Assistant to General Counsel, U.S. Treasury Department
1942-43 Assistant General Counsel to Lend-lease Administration
1943-44 Special Counsel to Foreign Economic Administration
1944 Associate Public Member of National War Labor Board
1948-72 Annual Anti-Trust Reviews given at the Association of the Bar, New York City
1951 Joined firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman and Hayes
1952 Marion Handler died
1953-55 Member Attorney General's National Commission to study Anti-trust Laws
1954 Awarded Bicentennial Silver Medal by Columbia University
1955 Married Miriam Adler
1956-57 Guest Lecturer, Buffalo Law School
1956-66 Chair, Special Commission to Study NY State Anti-trust Legislation
1957 Partner, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays, and Handler
1963 Guest Lecturer on American Law, University of Leiden
1963 Scopus Award from American Friends of Hebrew University
1965 Degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) conferred from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1972 Retired from teaching after 45 years, named "Professor Emeritus"
1973 Columbia Law Review devote March Issue to Milton Handler, "Mr. Anti-trust"
1974 Milton Handler Chair in Trade Regulation established at Columbia University School of Law
1975 Handler Auditorium on Mt. Scopus at Hebrew University dedicated
1976 Medal of Excellence awarded by Columbia Law Alumni
1977 Outstanding Research in Law and Government Award from Fellows of American Bar Association
1979 Human Relations Award of the Lawyers Division of the Anti-Defamation League Appeal
1980 Joseph M. Proskauer Award from Lawyers' Division of United Jewish Appeal
1988 John Sherman Award from the Antitrust Division of the U.S Justice Department
1995 Columbia College awards Milton Handler its John Jay Award
1995 Milton Handler establishes the Milton Handler Research Fund at Columbia Law School
1996 The Milton Handler Rare book and Manuscript reading room is opened in the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
1998 Dies in New York City on November 10, several days after suffering a stroke