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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members were ex-lawyers and ex-law professors; only two of them (Vinson and Rutledge, who had served on the Court of Appeals) had had any previous experience on the bench. As Supreme Court justices they were young (average age, 59)-Seven of them, the largest number of appointees by one President since Washington, owed their jobs to Franklin Roosevelt. The Nine in the order of their appointments...
Anaconda, largest of the two U.S. companies that together own 96% of Chile's mines, announced a 30% cutback, laid off 2,615 workers. Higher-cost Chilean-owned mines had already shut down or soon would. That would add several thousand more to the unemployment rolls. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the price drop brought cries from copper-state Congressmen for revival of the prewar tariff on U.S. copper imports. If it were reimposed, Chile would be shut from any big share of the U.S. market...
...ambitious scribe might well draw an analogy here and point out that with the advent of joint instruction, Radcliffe is finally coming into the big leagues; that Harold L. Ickes is warmed up and will deliver the pitch,--and that the Radcliffe Class of '49 is fielding the largest number of married students in history...
...majority of the Class of '49's other 32 married seniors--the largest married group ever to march into Sanders--will be present today...
...Eastern Intercollegiate titles riding on the outcome of the contest--Yale took care of that when it eliminated the Crimson from title contention Monday down at New Haven. Instead there will merely be half a century of Class Day baseball tradition to egg the players on, and the largest and most partisan crowed of the year installed in the venerable stands...