Word: disciplinarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History to Make. There was general agreement that this court was above average. What this really meant was that there were above average justices on it. The absence of a strong disciplinarian like the late Chief Justice Hughes contributed to the haggling among the justices; so did the ever-growing complexity of the problems which they were called upon to solve...
...portrait of a proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...
...Boston Public Latin School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest-and possibly the best-U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...
Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...
...lined furs. To his guests he served only cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng...