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...Hughes's qualms have lately been eased. A committee of eminent judges and attorneys (including President Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the snooty Judiciariat Society) has drawn up a compromise whereby the U. S. Judiciary's financial officer will be safely insulated from the Supreme Justices. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst expects to have this measure passed soon after Congress meets in January. The judges therefore must figure their need for the coming fiscal year, and Justice Roberts asked those in his bailiwick to do so last week. Other justices presumably will do likewise in the circuits where they oversee...
Harvard's fifth robbery in two weeks occurred early yesterday morning when a Lowell House dweller was divested of his wallet, bursar's card, and fountain pan as he slept undisturbed...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...
...school will take elementary school graduates, in four years turn them into butchers, bakers, grocers, waiters. The food industry has contributed $30,000 worth of equipment: a butcher shop with mechanical slicers, refrigerators, gleaming showcases and sawdust on the floor; a bakery; a grocery; a cafeteria with a soda fountain; a food bacteriology laboratory...
Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...