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...every Supreme Court Justice is born a little liberal or a little conservative. Last week Justice Owen Josephus Roberts proved that he was born on the borderline. Having voted on the gold clause cases with the Supreme Court Liberals (TIME, Feb. 25), last week he voted with the Conservatives. Result: a 5-to-4 decision declaring the Railway Pension Law, first "social security" act of the New Deal, unconstitutional...
...pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
Meeting last night in the Upper Common Room of the Union, the new-born Harvard Peace Society elected officers for the year 1935-36 and ratified a constitution. The officers, all Freshmen, are Robert S. Brainerd, president; John M. Vanderlip, Vice-president; Edward Ladd, secretary; A. Jerome Himelhech, treasurer; Robert P. Bentley, Jr., librarian. John J. Fox and Robert E. Wernick were elected councilmen...
According to Mr. Atterbury, the new head of the self-styled Standard Railroad of the World is "unquestionably the ablest railroad executive in the country." Martin Withington Clement, born 53 years ago in Sunbury, Pa., is one of the youngest presidents Pennsy ever had. He started with the road as a rodman in 1901 after graduating from Trinity College, trod the traditional path of railroad promotion until 1926 when he was made vice president in charge of operations. At that time and for years afterwards Mr. Atterbury's logical successor appeared to be his famed Vice President Elisha...
John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...