Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly professor of medicine at Columbia University, is joining Red Norvo's band at the Raymor to take over the clarinet chair...
...VICE PRESIDENT: Is there objection? The chair hears none...
After their election victories of last November, it is now the turn of Rightists to try pillars of the Left, and ever since Congress convened they have been at it. Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, Frank Murphy led the parade, were obliged to take the witness chair and state publicly their political beliefs. Comparatively they made a much less diverting show, for the possession of even "radical" beliefs is less dramatic than the possession of great wealth, and these Leftists were far nimbler witnesses than the scared Rightists. Last week came the trials of two more Leftists, and again the performances...
...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...
...Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...