Word: 1930s
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Faced with that silence, the power company's lawyers eventually asked Simpson's court to hold that the questions must be answered. Whereupon all seven justices recused themselves. The last time such a maneuver put the court in a bind was in the Depression 1930s, when the justices ducked a ruling that would have cut their salaries. In such cases, Alabama law requires the Governor to appoint a special court of five lawyers to hand down a decision. Governor Benjamin M. Miller had no trouble rounding up the required number of lawyers and, once on the bench...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan...
...conduct a "brutal and obscene sight." Chemistry Professor George Pimentel countered that only civil law could deal with "demagoguery, vituperation and threats," said that "everything I love at Berkeley is at stake." Electrical Engineering Professor Charles Susskind compared the agitators with "the Nazi students whom I saw in the 1930s harassing deans, hounding professors and their families." The senate finally voted 795 to 28 to deplore the use of external police "except in extreme emergency" but to urge an immediate end of the strike and "to affirm our confidence in the chancellor's leadership...
...team, living in the off-screen home attached to the pleasant kitchen and dining room we see on TV. The picture of Paul Child and the information about him confirm that I knew him as the art teacher at Avon Old Farms School, Avon, Conn., during the early 1930s. But I remember him best as the black-belt jujitsu expert who schooled me in the lightning leverages of that sport, and sometimes allowed me the illusion that I was giving him a contest...
...L.B.J. library, which will house papers recording Johnson's career in public service since the early 1930s and serve as L.B.J.'s study after his presidency, had its first showing, in model form, last week in a presentation presided over by W. W. Heath, chairman of the board of regents. It turned out to be a ten-gallon colossus. The complex was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft, who also did Yale's rare-book library. Situated on a 19-acre extension of the university, the $10,750,000 project (to be paid...