Word: buffington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protesting, but obedient, Youngster Davis divested himself. Standing in his shirtsleeves, he admitted that his robe, tattered and full of holes, had been borrowed from another judge a generation ago. Then Judge Buffington helped him into a fine new robe, sent by dressy old Judge Isaac Meekins of Elizabeth City...
Elevator boys at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he lives, reckon that as long as life lasts will be many a year for the Hon. Joseph Buffington. Though he no longer sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used...
...Republican National Convention of 1880, Joseph Buffington cast 36 consecutive votes for Ulysses S. Grant. In the 46 years since 1892, when President Harrison gave him a Federal judgeship, he has written (in longhand) more than 5,000 opinions, filling 243 volumes of the Federal Reporter, wearing out dozens of fountain pens...
Republic Steel Corp. NLRB was right in demanding, and retiring Justice Joseph Buffington's Third Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong in denying permission to withdraw and revise the Republic record before the corporation appeal is heard...
...Gilbert, the paper's assistant managing editor, but also upon Publisher Doorly's teammate, short, paunchy Pulitzer Prizewinner (1919) Editor Harvey Newbranch who writes lengthy, lucid, politically-effective editorials, dictates many of the paper's policies and has for a son-in-law Congressman Harry Buffington Coffee...