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...Supreme Court. He was the last of the archconservatives. Justices Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland had retired; Justice Pierce Butler, solid rock of conservatism, had died. The last leaf on the old tree was Justice McReynolds, and even his fierce keening ("The Constitution is gone! . . . This is Nero in his worst form") had subsided from grumpy, almost invariably dissenting opinions into simple votes of "No" against liberal legislation...
...nightmare had come true; "Nero" was in for a third term. He refused to attend the inaugural, next day wrote out his resignation-two formal, cold sentences that Franklin Roosevelt answered just as coolly...
...most unlikely that Ellory Queen, Nero Wolfe, or even an up-to-date version of Sherlock Holmes could hold a job in a modern police organization...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...
...unruffled husband, to prove to his wife that there was no danger, tuned in another radio station with music on. Humphed his wife: "Nero fiddled while Rome burned...