Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York's Court of Appeals to fill the Supreme Court vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25). Senatorial Insurgents, Republicans and Demo-crats alike, unanimously applauded the choice. In making...
Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement.
Here are a number of celebrities from all important countries except the Orient. The important U. S. figures are all there, from the young Lindbergh to the venerable Holmes, with such curious exceptions as Henry Ford and Henry Lewis Stimson. The European gallery lacks Spain's recent Alfonso, England...
Holmes Airport. Only a few weeks ago a wind like that had kept the silvered globule from landing for 31 hr. Gingerly Pilot Dixon nosed the Columbia to within 50 ft. of the ground, when a sudden down-gust slapped the craft to earth. The impact knocked the engines askew...
Epee. T. I. Merson '32 defeated W. Frackleton (B.U.), 3-0 J. H. Beard '34 defeated J. Holmes (BU), 2-0 W. Frackleton (BU) defeated J. H. Beard '34, 2-1 C. L. Dyer '34 defeated J. Holmes (BU) 2-1.