Word: afternooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chair at the left of Chief Justice Hughes last Monday afternoon, having returned to duty only a week before after an attack of grippe, sat the Supreme Court's oldest and, to some minds most distinguished member. Spectators who had come to hear the arguments in the Strecker deportation case (see p. 14), occasionally glanced at the little, attentive old man, his head, crowned by fluffs of unruly grey hair, dwarfing the narrow, black-robed shoulders. As was not unusual for Mr. Justice Brandeis, he was smiling to himself...
...health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply: "One must perforce accept the inevitable. . . . There is nothing I can do but to accede...
...greatest mass flights in modern history came to an end one afternoon last week when 40,000 soldiers of the once-fine Catalonian Army and a few straggling civilian refugees evacuated the Spanish border village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge...
...heart chat with the real article, imported two burly miners named Scaife and Spouge from Yorkshire. As soon as they reached London, Scaife and Spouge made a beeline for Madame Tussaud's waxworks to get used to rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler be there too?" The Great Appeaser had a good laugh over that...
Underdogs again in their second meet of the season, the Freshman Track team pits its strength against a strong Exeter aggregation at 2:30 this afternoon in the Exeter cage. Last Saturday the Yardling tracksters suffered a sharp defeat in their initial contest with Andover; today, according to Coach Bill Neufeld they face Exeter's strongest team in many years. This, combined with heavy inroads of injuries and studies, seems to spell anything but victory for the Crimson Fresh...