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...collection in the result of work by many people rather than a few, for within a few weeks of its founding on January 9, 1919, there days after Roosevelt's death, the association had attracted many thousand of members. Its aims, as stated in the charter were: "To erect a D. C., to build a momental memorial park at Oyster Bay, Land Island (Roosevelt's home), and to propagate the policies and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt." The first task remains undone, but the other two have been successfully completed, as a thriving park on Long Island and the immense library...
...dark, medieval palace of the archdiocese of Seville, the aged (73) cardinal sat, throned on a dais of red velvet, his old eyes half-shuttered. To his right and left sat two rows of black-robed prelates, erect in straight-backed chairs...
...against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues: "I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter ... I can still walk about the world with my head erect." During World War II, he served briefly as Churchill's Minister of Information (1940-41), after France's liberation went to Paris as ambassador. Duff Cooper retired in 1947, wrote a candid autobiography, Old Men Forget, published two months before his death...
Through eleven hours of argument, the nine Justices were studies in intense interest. Earl Warren, his bulk (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) dominating the bench, sat erect in the high-back chair that had been used by the late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially...
...eleven at night, just as someone was calculating how many man hours had been spent waiting, a lookout reported that the pin-stripes were coming. the twenty-five grey flannels jumped to their feet, smoothed their wrinkles and stood erect, wearing the same bright grins they had worn in the interview room. The chief pinstripe said something about what a hard choice it was. Then he announced the winners, and the others shook their hands and murmured congratulations. Then, with a final, faded smile in he direction of the pin-stripes, they walked quickly out the door and into...