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...lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton case doubted for a moment that Judge Nields would hand down a strictly impartial decision. The trial closed last November. After long deliberation, Judge Nields was ready with his opinion last week...
...District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson at Louisville, like Judge Nields at Wilmington, belongs to that huge company of Federal jurists which the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regime left behind to plague its successors. Not only is Judge Dawson a "Block" Southern Republican but also a Businessman who resigned some years ago as board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code...
...Better Yourselves!" When the President of the United States and Mrs. Herbert Hoover received 98-lb. King Prajadhipok and 115-lb. Queen Rambai Barni (TIME, May 4, 1931), Siam was the world's last country in which the Sovereign remained absolute. The Siamese Cabinet consisted chiefly of prolific Rama V's abler sons, and from that polygamous panel of 134 His Majesty had no difficulty in drawing really able Princes. To them King Prajadhipok once sternly declared: "In my own family the Princes who have no capacity and no ability have nothing to do with the government service...
Politicians, certain of Herbert Hoover's desire to re-enter the White House, were sure that the 31st President of the U. S. was trying to make political capital out of a major division of public opinion on New Deal policy by showing himself 1) "liberal" in that he accepted the 59? dollar as an accomplished fact and 2) "sound" by advocating resumption of specie payments. When newshawks caught up with him at Chandler, Ariz., Mr. Hoover gave his own reason for his act: "I felt it was my duty...
...Other recipients: Herbert Hoover (1928); John Hays Hammond...