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...grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...
...little black biplane then flew on to suburban Modling, traced the initials U.S.S.R. against the blue. Up went six slow Austrian army planes in pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive for the deed. Some patriots thought the scribbling pilot was a German agent provocateur sent up to bolster the Nazi thesis that Czechoslovakia is a "Bolshevik outpost." Best explanation: an unreconstructed Austrian Red commemorating Vienna's abortive Socialist-Communist counterrevolution of February...
...large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
...Oklahoma's Nichols did about losing their patronage. Defying the President, who had asked for the bill as first step in his great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from recording their insubordination, killed the amendments by 216-to-164, sent the President's bill intact to the Senate...
...League has heard in years came last week at Lyons from French Premier Leon Blum. His speech, while proposing nothing specific, was an overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members of the League of Nations, faithful to its principles and loyal to its Covenant! We have linked friendships which...