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...others are government officials. Gustave Van Belle, Commissioner of Roads & Bridges in Flanders, is a slim, diffident man with thin legs and a reddish face. He has been world champion three times, won many an international tournament with his artful sidearm stroke. Long-nosed Albert Poensgen, a onetime jurist and now a well-paid employe in Berlin's Ministry of Finance, is considered by his confreres to be the luckiest player in the world as well as one of the best. At 51 he has been playing in international tournaments for 21 years, won the world championship nine times...
...member of the royal family (addicted to Bovril since Edward VII) but whose name is discreetly withheld. Chairman of the Board is Lord Luke of Pavenham, K. B. E., whose grandfather was Grocer John Johnston. Fellow members are His Grace the Duke of Atholl and that celebrated Tory jurist, Viscount Hailsham, P. C., onetime Lord Chancellor and present Minister of War. If it were conceivable that such names as these needed corroboration to inspire confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician men of science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett...
Thus simply did a great jurist step down from the bench which his presence has graced, honored and liberalized for 29 full and fruitful years...
...opinion Justice Holmes stands as the greatest jurist of this century, and the ideas now formulated by most lawyers were expressed by him a generation ago. I feel sure that no other member of the Supreme Court in the history of the body has been so productive of ideas. Although he gave up his law professorship here many years ago, he has always been one of the Law School's warmest friends, accepting the presidency of the Harvard Law School Association for a long period of years, and it is very fitting that his latest portrait should hang opposite that...
...years ago Alfred Lief published a collection of Mr. Justice Holmes' dissenting opinions. Now in a companion volume to this earlier one, the same editor has collected opinions which portray the jurist not as the "Great Dissenter" but as the spokesman for the majority of the Court...