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...include the final line of the invocation with which his court crier opens every session: "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." There is doubtless a twinkle in his eye as he says it nowadays, for he is a statesman as well as a jurist and there is ample evidence that his mood today is not one of impotent bitterness. To the American Law Institute last May he said: "I am happy to report that the Supreme Court is still functioning...
Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...
...corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys...
...last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...
...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...