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The Constables' reading tastes seem as omnivorous as their appetite for antiques. But Mr. Constable can name one favorite character without hesitation: "I worship Sherlock Holmes and know him well." In fact, Mr. Constable belongs to "The Speckled Band," a Boston Sherlock Holmes club. Both he and his wife also...
Mrs. Bunting had told a Holmes Hall audience Thursday of her directive to all personnel offices "to scour the Boston area for qualified Negroes to fill vacancies." The director of housekeeping at Radcliffe, Mrs. Dorothy S. McAndrews, confirmed that since President Bunting's letter was received any qualified Negro who...
Radcliffe is giving preferential treatment to Negroes in hiring employees, President Bunting said at a talk in Holmes Hall last night.
After the war, White became a lawyer, a judge, a U.S. Senator, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller died in 1910, the other Associate Justices paid White a magnificent tribute: they petitioned President Taft to appoint him to head the court. Oliver...
The summer vacation ended with the traditional cry of the marshal. And the very haste with which the court hustled through ceremony and got down to its closed-door business testified to its crowded calendar. The nine blackrobed justices spent just 24 minutes admitting 70 new attorneys to practice before...