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...legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until after the Court Bill's solemn political interment in Washington (TIME, Aug. 2). They were to arrive in time to dedicate other" tasteful monuments at Flanders Field, Bellicourt, Cantigny, Gibraltar, Château-Thierry...
...temporary injunction of Judge Robert M. Gibson in Pittsburgh's Federal District Court restraining the Govern-ment from anti-trust proceedings in Manhattan against Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, May 24 et ante): A Decision by a three-judge "special expediting" panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overruling Judge Gibson, opening the way for trial of Andrew W. Mellon and 42 other Alcoans...
Roared sturdy-souled Lawyer Robert Gibson: "It has been the policy of the State to do everything within its power to keep people from owning cows. The milk trust has been behind this legislation and gradually the condition will exist where there will be no privately owned cows in the State. In company with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, whom I count among my friends, I am opposed to these laws. The new legislation is beyond the attempts of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. I felt that it was time somebody did something of a drastic nature to fight this...
Last week Molly Lewis, 15, and her daughter, 7, chewed their cuds as placidly as usual but the rest of the Gibson estate was in commotion. In May the New York Legislature had ordered that every cow in the State, privately milked or not, be tested for tuberculosis. Lawyer Gibson and his wife took lonely counsel with themselves. The Law had them and their cows at bay. Mr. Gibson telephoned for a local veterinarian and one midnight, as the Gibsons sat alone, they heard, from the meadow behind the house, one shot kill Molly Lewis, a second shot kill Sylvia...
When the State veterinarians knocked at the door next morning to do their duty, Mrs. Gibson called out of an upstairs window: "You'll not be able to test them...