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When McCray's appointment to the Harvard coaching staff was announced in Hanover last spring, he found himself confronted with a few congratulations and many half-smiling accusations of "Traitor." He found himself the butt of many jokes, and "So you're going to coach at Harvard" became a general battle cry among his room-mates...
Reasoned Reply. Japanese rightly felt they were the chief butt of what had been launched from Chicago. The Japanese Foreign Office specializes in reasoned replies, few of which ever seem reasonable to Occidentals, and its specialists cheerfully went to work last week. They always bear in mind that Japanese authorities in China always extract from Chinese officials who happen to be at their mercy treaties, pledges and written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts...
...Supreme Court office staff Associate Justice Black last week got Leon Smallwood, a Negro Catholic, as his messenger, chose Anne Butt, a Catholic, for his secretary. Day the Court convened (see p. 17), Jerome A. Cooper of Birmingham was appointed his law clerk. A statement issued through the Supreme Court mentioned that Lawyer Cooper "is of the Jewish faith...
Earlier Justice Black had appointed Miss Annie Butt, a Catholic, as a secretary, and the Supreme Court had designated Leon Smallwood, a Negro and a Catholic as his messenger. Cooper is twenty-four years old, was born in Alamba, and graduated from the Harvard Law School...
...political future of the U. S. This letter stirred in Republican James Abram Garfield so much resentment that 21 years later he flayed it from the stump during a Congressional campaign.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt, like Garfield before him, chose Macaulay's letter as a good butt for political rebuttal...