Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only adventure in politics up to that time had been his appearance as an Alaskan delegate at the 1920 Democratic convention which nominated James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1928 he appeared in John J. Raskob's waiting room carrying a brief case full of figures, but that Democratic National Chairman was much too preoccupied to see the hefty young amateur. Hurja's service in that campaign was limited to a few menial political jobs performed for the late Terence F. McKeever, Tammany district leader. By 1932 Hurja knew his way around Wall Street better. Among...
...being disappointed for a month they were at last going to be rewarded with a decision on the Tennessee Valley Authority. They had two tips: 1) Word had leaked out that the Supreme Court police had been instructed to get luncheon in advance since the session would not be brief. 2) Seated in the court room crowd was Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even...
...broad-gauge contest for freedom of the press as guaranteed under the First Amendment. Lawyer Deutsch was permitted to take several months off, browse along his own path in Northern and European libraries. Setting up the thesis that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying...
...richer residents of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel is Mrs. Mary Ann Magnin, the spry little 87-year-old founder of I. Magnin & Co., West Coast smartshop chain. Her daily routine includes a drive down the "Peninsula" in her Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous...
...PERSONAL PLEASURES - Rose Macaulay - Macmillan ($2.50). Belle-lettristic essays, mostly brief, on many subjects by a sharp-penned writer...