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...must to all men, Death came last week to Joseph McKenna, 83, onetime (1898-1925) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Washington nine men in solemn black robes met after a two weeks' recess to hand down weighty decisions; then, as they adjourned in honor of once fiery Joseph McKenna, their robes seemed to take on an even blacker shade. They were his honorary pallbearers. All of them, save the youngest (Harlan Fiske Stone), had sat on the Supreme Court bench with Justice McKenna. Impetuous, be had often vexed them. Irish, he had made them love...
Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice...
...TIME'S information and possible future use in its very interesting and unique presentation of news, . . . you should know that Coughlin and McKenna were contemporary political bosses, keepers of large saloons of the lowest type where one quart schooners of beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5?, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete...
...number of other portraits of noted jurists have recently been added to the Law School's collection, which is one of the most notable of its kind in the world. Among these is a painting of Judge Julian Mack and another of Mr. Justice McKenna, a graduate of the Harvard Law School in the class...