Word: niantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that...
Born 56 years ago in Niantic, Conn., Colonel Ayres was raised in Boston, got his start teaching school in Puerto Rico, where he took up statistics on the side. Later he worked for the Russell Sage Foundation in the dual capacity of director of education and director of statistics. During the War he became the Army's first statistical officer, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1918 he went to France with Woodrow Wilson as statistical officer of the Peace Commission. He has no hobbies, little social life, is seldom seen outside his bank except when making speeches...