Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time this session the Supreme Court (which adjourns for the season June 1) this week pronounced the fate of a major New Deal law. Expecting a decision on the Social Security Act, Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal...
...Justice chatted with him amiably for a few minutes, handed him a copy of the letter, told him it could be released as soon as the original had reached the White House. Newshawk Suter's eyes popped. The letter announced Mr. Van Devanter's retirement on June 2 (day after the Supreme Court completes its term). As a parting kindness one oldster was giving another oldster a scoop...
Director Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum will open these displays on June 8. On that day, far out over the Pacific, the moon will eclipse the sun for the longest period (7 min. 4 sec.) in 1,200 years. It is also the second Tuesday in June, the most popular day in the year for committing suicide...
Died. Count Francis Harrach, 67, aide-de-camp to the late Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand; in Vienna. At Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, Count Harrach stood on the left running-board of the Archduke's automobile, unsuccessfully attempted to shield him from Gavrilo Princip's fatal bullet...
Died. George Isaac Hughes, 97, Confederate veteran who attracted the attention of the American Medical Association by fathering a boy (Franklin Roosevelt Hughes) at 94 and at 96 a girl by his young second wife (TIME, Nov. 11, 1935 & June 15); at New Bern. N. C. By his first wife he had 16 other children...