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...everyone; except for Steve Early, the White House secretariat had collapsed with grief. Shortly before 7 p.m. the Trumans, the Cabinet members and other bigwigs gathered in the green-walled Cabinet Room. Harry Truman, not quite at ease, sat down nervously in a brown leather chair. When Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strode in, Harry Truman rose, clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel stood at 7:08. It took just one minute for the oath to be administered, and Harry Truman, 60, the neat, slim...
...Justice Douglas: "If the alleged combination is shown to exist, the decree which can be entered will be no idle or futile gesture. It will eliminate . . . the collusive practices which the antitrust laws condemn. . . . It will supply an effective remedy." On this, the dissenting Justices, led by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, said sharply: "It seems obvious that this Court cannot give any effective relief . . . without breaking down rate regulation by the [Interstate Commerce] Commission...
...same page where it has rested at five previous inaugurations†: the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians, which ends: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. His repetition of the oath, after it had been intoned by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, was clear and firm, ending with the familiar so help...
...Flight Lieut. William John Sanger, 29, of Harvey, N.D., who enlisted in April 1941. A bomber pilot, he has won both the D.S.O. and the D.F.C. ¶ Flight Lieut. John Harlan Stickell, 30, Gilson, Ill. He joined up in 1941, is a bomber pilot, holds the D.S.O. and the D.F.C...
Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, 71, had spent the summer in a shingle house in Bethel, Me. There he leafed through legal briefs, examined a stack of art books, but mainly just puttered. Justice Owen Roberts, 69, weeded and hoed on his 700-acre farm in Pennsylvania...