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...born, had the endorsement of such U. S. Supreme Court lights as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who mar ried Mr. & Mrs. Frankfurter. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1906, Felix Frankfurter served as an assistant U. S. attorney in the south ern district of New York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. In 1917-18 he was confidential assistant to Secretary of War Baker. Considerable notoriety attached itself to Professor Frankfurter as a result of his sympathy for Nicola Sacco...
...build a museum for his collection. The pink Venetian palace in Sarasota was the result ; the museum idea expanded into the art school and junior college. Mr. John imported a faculty (largely from the Grand Central Art Galleries of New York) headed by Dr. Spivey, president of South ern College, Lakeland, Fla., and built dormitories for men and women, and a dining hall. First student to register was one Frank Norman of Minden, La. Student Norman explained last week that the reason he has chosen the Ringling School of Art to complete his education was that he knew and admired...
...Noises. With slowspeed propeller and muffled engine, airplane noises will be reduced below the point of oppression. But wire-bracing, gears, cams, valves, engine cowling, various parts of unbraced sheet metal in airplane construction will, by their vibration, for some time keep planes from becoming as silent as mod ern automobiles...
...Because of their gold mottlings French Canadians call them dorés (gilded). They are distinguished by their large, flat eyes, are sometimes called glassy-eye pike. They weigh from three to 55 lb., are found mainly in Canadian and North ern U. S. lakes and rivers...
...sails June i for Mos cow). He knows every part of his com pany, has tended it tenderly. Indeed the announcement at Chicago read: "The invitation to go to Russia was extended to Mr. Budd by the Soviet Government be cause the topography of the Great North ern Railway is said to greatly resemble that over which many Russian railroads...